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Well, that's good for them, I suppose, but why is anyone else supposed to care? You actually have to do better than the status quo before you can use your fancy
by marssaxman 10y ago
Well, that's good for them, I suppose, but why is anyone else supposed to care? You actually have to do better than the status quo before you can use your fancy new automated product as a hook for convincing people to let you snoop on their lives, and it's hard to imagine very many snoop-on-people's-lives-based businesses investing enough R&D into their complex replacements for everyday products to reach that threshold.
- Retra 10y agoI don't even know why people want smart watches or touch-screen monitors but people buy them (and apparently love them.) I'm sure there's a whole planet full of people who will by IoT dice and IoT ice cubes and IoT nail clippers and whatever other shit someone wants to make. There's probably someone emptying their dryer right now dreaming about preparing a slide deck for a new IoT lint catcher startup. I've recently read a proposal for using block chain to try to track whether children have done their homework, so I willing to believe anything right now.
- jessaustin 10y agoHaha I learned through longtime use of public laundries that you have to empty the lint screen every time. It's my impression that only those who have only used their own private dryers make this mistake often enough to require an IM from their IoT lint device. Still that might be a big enough market? ...just kidding! Rather than convincing anyone to spend three figures on an IoT lint device, any marketing campaign would just convince them to just check the damn screen!