There’s also the more fundamental question of whether a standard amounts to much if doesn’t have the support of tech titans like Apple, Google, and Amazon. So far, those companies haven’t shown much interest in either OCF or AllSeen.

Source: www.fastcompany.com

In ancient Babylon (now Iraq, and never rebuilt), there were much bigger issues at stake, althought the supposed trillions of dollars in IoT are not to be mocked. Automotive seems like a side interest in this battle of languages.