Big Techs looking to develop a standard for Smart Homes

You can't keep the big tech companies out of the news, can you? Smart home devices is one of the niches where they have been battling to gain supremacy -- Amazon's Echo, Google Home or Apple HomePod are all popular smart home devices. Despite the involvement of these tech giants among other major players, Smart home tech adoption has been slow so far. In my opinion, one of the biggest hindrances in this regard has been the privacy concerns emanating from the use of such smart home technology, like smart speakers. Amazon, Google & Apple -- all three have been previously embroiled in controversies where they were involved in privacy breach of the customers using their devices.