Staples Connect hub is dead as IoT graveyard grows

Staples Connect, the retailer’s smart home hub which promised to corral connected gadgets across multiple brands, has finally died, another casualty of the fiercely competitive Internet of Things. Launched back in late 2013, the hub was the centerpiece of Staple’s smart home platform. Rather than attempting to make every connected light, lock, outlet, and alarm, Staples Connect instead acted as …