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The "TV in the refrigerator" IoT is definitely a fad, but you're right, there's a fundamental need to connect devices together and to a central managing/monitor
by dimino 10y ago
The "TV in the refrigerator" IoT is definitely a fad, but you're right, there's a fundamental need to connect devices together and to a central managing/monitoring service.
- discreteevent 10y agoThere is also a fundamental need to have those devices be secure. Consumers take this for granted because they have been secure for so long. They don't know what's coming. And when they find out then there whole thing will probably blow up. It just takes a few companies to tarnish it for everybody else. The problem with IoT is the I
- acdha 10y agoThe problem is the lack of corporate liability. If they used some alternative to the internet we'd be reading about how it makes the SWIFT network look secure add long as the alternatives are “spend money and time doing it responsibly” or “ship it now with a strong EULA”.
- freehunter 10y agoThat stuff kills me when it's marketed like that. It's not IoT! Having a tablet or a TV or Twitter in your computer isn't IoT, it's just a shitty tablet, and it still required human intervention. That's literally the Internet we have right now. IoT would be your fridge talking to the store and telling them you need more milk, and then you get a shipment of milk. But that's infinitely harder than taping a tablet to a fridge, so Samsung sells us a tablet taped to a fridge and it's called IoT. Connected devices are not IoT. Marketing needs to learn that.