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@internetofshit is a great follow and pretty quickly illustrates just how absurd the IoT rush has become. Solutions in search of problems.
by bedhead 10y ago
@internetofshit is a great follow and pretty quickly illustrates just how absurd the IoT rush has become. Solutions in search of problems.
- mcphage 10y ago> Solutions in search of problems. Solutions in search of money before the market wises up to how crap these products are.
- imtringued 10y agoa bit off topic. Why can't somebody sell a reasonably priced Thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosure. Oh right intel's certification process takes several months... All in the name of quality assurance yet most thunderbolt 3 products feel subpar considering their price.
- Panoramix 10y agoI have the same view, but there are all these companies investing billions into it, so there's something I don't see? It's like this is being rammed down everyone's throats. IoT is heralded as "the next big thing" and nobody want to miss out on it. Which means everybody is investing and developing it, which means it will probably become a reality. A self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts, which is kind of sad because IMO it's not a particularly compelling vision. There are thousands of things we could improve rather than placing chips with sensors everywhere.
- Thrymr 10y agoChips with sensors everywhere is inevitable; both are cheap and getting cheaper. The real question in my mind is whether the devices will be using proprietary protocols to communicate with centralized corporate cloud servers, or some kind of open, interoperable mesh network. Right now I don't like the way the trend is going.