The Smart Home Point newsletter was launched in mid-2022. It contains the latest news from the smart home industry, along with hand-picked articles and videos from us and other smart home sources.
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(This newsletter was originally sent to subscribers on 8th March 2023) Hi I’m Tristan! Welcome to today’s Smart Home Point newsletter. Today’s newsletter is a little shorter than previous ones, because not much has happened in the past few weeks… apart from Ring screwing over their customers. Again. News: “An Update to Ring In-App Features” … Read more
(This newsletter was originally sent to subscribers on 8th February 2023) Hi I’m Tristan! Welcome to today’s Smart Home Point newsletter. There’s a lot to unpack in today’s newsletter, including various Matter updates, a few sales, and David Limp (Amazon Senior VP of Devices) saying that they have an internal “plan” to “monetize” Alexa. Amazon … Read more
(This newsletter was originally sent to subscribers on 24th January 2023) Hi I’m Tristan! I hope that you’re all settling back into your new year routines, and welcome to today’s Smart Home Point newsletter. CES 2023 saw a bunch of smart home updates, which we sum up here, along with other news about Apple’s new … Read more
(This newsletter was originally sent to subscribers on 6th January 2023) Hi I’m Tristan! I hope you all had a great New Year, and welcome to today’s Smart Home Point newsletter, covering the latest smart home news and updates over the past few weeks. It is CES 2023 week, which is where we usually see a bunch … Read more
(This newsletter was originally sent to subscribers on 14th December 2022) Hi I’m Tristan, and welcome to today’s Smart Home Point newsletter, covering the latest smart home news and updates over the past few weeks. Security researcher Paul Moore caused a splash in smart home circles, by revealing that Eufy’s cameras and doorbells transmit data … Read more
(This newsletter was originally sent to subscribers on 21st November 2022) Amazon just destroyed music… but at least Black Friday is almost here! Today’s newsletter looks at the latest smart home news, our recent videos & blog posts, and more. At the start of the month, Amazon announced that they had “upgraded” Prime Music – … Read more
(This newsletter was originally sent on 7th October 2022) Hi everyone, Tristan here. I mentioned in the last newsletter that there hadn’t been many recent smart home updates. That was because of the September lull: everyone was finishing up vacations and heading back to work and school-run routines. But now the smart home industry is … Read more
(This newsletter was originally sent on 16th September 2022) The latest smart home updates from Smart Home Point Somehow we’re already in September (where’s the time going?!). In some ways September can be a slow month for the smart home industry. After all, June and July are always quite busy because of Prime Day, resulting … Read more
(This newsletter was sent on 26th August 2022, to the first 50 subscribers to our newly-launched newsletter.) Welcome to the FIRST EVER* Smart Home Point Newsletter (* Do you feel honored to be one of the first 50 subscribers?!) Today’s newsletter will be shorter-than-average – it is mainly a ‘hello’, and to say thanks for … Read more