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I agree that the chips could be cheaper with the right killer app. It's a matter of time. Tech "thought leaders" think that time is now. I think it's still a fe
by normloman 11y ago
I agree that the chips could be cheaper with the right killer app. It's a matter of time. Tech "thought leaders" think that time is now. I think it's still a few years off.
But what solves the issue of being useless? And what is that price-lowering killer app gonna be if IOT means shoving a wifi adapter in your blender?
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoNo need to be very useful at all. Just convenient. We got remote controls for our media devices, to save us getting off our butts. Now its a way of life - channel surfing.
- normloman 11y agoYeah but that convenience is very useful. I think we're just talking past eachother. Remotes make watching tv way easier. The question is whether some of these internet enabled devices make things easier or not.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoYup. And we won't know until someone shows us how much we were missing by not having them. An internet-connected coffee pot or dishwasher is hard to appreciate now. But what if they alerted and called a service guy if they failed? That would be handy. We'd come to hate the non-connected device that didn't appear on our 'household service dashboard' app. It'd be like having a Victrola in the house.