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IKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee)
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and worth noting as well that thread is only kinda another standard: it uses the same wireless communication as zigbee does
And Matter is modeled after HomeKit.
It reminds me of how the MP4 container that became a standard is modeled after the MOV container.
It’s common for standards backed by consortiums to be modeled after something that is already successfully achieving the goals of the system.