Matter launched with a bang six months ago, but since then, it’s been awfully quiet. With only a handful of new products available to buy, delays in promised updates of existing products, and a glacial rollout of support for the new smart home standard from the major platforms — specifically Google and Amazon — it has not been the success many people (myself included) hoped for. And today’s announcement of the release of Matter 1.1 is not going to help matters.
The first big Matter…