To help the cause, the group even introduced its own brand-new mesh wireless protocol called Thread. The group says this secure wireless technology enables better, secure and more energy-efficient ...

But the overarching issue is the inability of the major platforms to get their act together and agree on how to implement one of Thread’s biggest benefits: a shared mesh network that any border ...

Apple has become a member of The Thread Group, an organization that supports companies interested in innovating networking solutions for consumer smart home devices using the Thread mesh standard ...

So, while the iPhone could act as an additional border router (a Thread network can have more than one, which — in theory — helps with reliability for the mesh network), for most use cases ...