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>We should prefer devices for which online integration, if it exists at all, is optional and easily replaced by your own server. This is something that's only
by RIMR 10y ago
>We should prefer devices for which online integration, if it exists at all, is optional and easily replaced by your own server.
This is something that's only going to be important to the tech-savvy. Your typical consumer wants idiot-proof instant gratification, and cloud-powered apps and devices provide that.
- nightski 10y agoPrivacy is not something only cherished by the tech savvy. The problem is, there is a lack of openness about the deal being engaged in when using these services. Consumers do not know what is being done with their data or even that it is being collected. That may be obvious to us, as engineers who understand it, but it isn't to your every day user. They are not stupid. It's just that our industry is not transparent and to be honest pretty damn deceptive in how customers are engaged.
- crdoconnor 10y agoWe really need a ratings agency for IoT devices that gives them a score based upon how much they leak data.
- Joeri 10y agoI would argue that you cannot make a cloud-powered device idiot-proof. Inevitably the network will hiccup and you will have to be tech-savvy to fix it. I predict a consumer backlash against smart devices once people realize just how dumb they become without the cloud.
- hackney 10y agoTrue, right up until the internet stops working in which case they really will be idiots for not having better, read smarter, infrastructure. I, for one, want google as far from me as is possible.