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Samsung and Ikea have developed custom integrations to make Ikea's Matter-over-Thread smart home devices work reliably on the SmartThings platform, addressing persistent connectivity and compatibility issues. This partnership highlights a critical gap in the Matter smart home standard's promise of universal interoperability, requiring platform-specific engineering work to ensure basic functionality. For IT organizations investing in IoT and smart building infrastructure, this signals that emerging interoperability standards may still require significant vendor collaboration and custom integration work despite their universal compatibility promises.