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US: Apple, Amazon, and Google just announced a major partnership

By  |  December 18, 2019

Three of the world’s biggest tech companies – Apple, Amazon, and Google – are putting aside years of competition and creating a joint technology standard.

The new standard is aimed at smart-home products like Amazon’s Echo, Apple’s HomePod, and Google’s Home. It’s called “Project Connected Home Over IP,” a very specific name for a group with a very specific goal: “To develop and promote the adoption of a new, royalty-free connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products, with security as a fundamental design tenet,” the companies announced on Wednesday.

More simply put, the group aims to create a single standard used by all creators of smart-home products.

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