Its a pretty good hill to die on. Everything IOT should be forced to communicate over transparent and self-documenting protocols so a. anyone can write an app to control said device and b.[0] Alexa/Cortana/Siri can query to set up a voice control interface.
[0] Maybe in the future when their capabilities get a bit better, but the gist is every device should respond to a 'hello' ping with a list of commands and NLP'able descriptions such that for an air conditioner 'alexa set temp 67 degrees F' just works.
[0] Maybe in the future when their capabilities get a bit better, but the gist is every device should respond to a 'hello' ping with a list of commands and NLP'able descriptions such that for an air conditioner 'alexa set temp 67 degrees F' just works.