HN isn’t a community of luddites and articles like this get tons of people up in arms almost everyday. Same is true at most other tech sites. The point is that

HN isn’t a community of luddites and articles like this get tons of people up in arms almost everyday. Same is true at most other tech sites. The point is that bad faith actions (forced obsolescence, surveillance, no commitment to security, weak sharing of protocols etc.) are holding back smart home and IoT significantly. This technology has so much potential and is not THAT new but adoption is still hit or miss. It’s a bad sign that so many self described techies are comfortably waiting on the sideline or worse, afraid to have some of these devices in their homes. I agree that smart tech is beyond useful but when the big IoT players ignore detractors and repeat the same mistakes over and over again it’s just flushing potential (and value) down the toilet. It would be great to see industry take complaints to heart and begin to build trust in their ecosystems.