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Can someone please help me understand what exactly this is?

• crocodiletears 7y ago
  Looks like Google Play Services for IOT devices?
• unlinked_dll 7y ago
  App framework for IOT
  • Ididntdothis 7y ago
    But I think specific to amazon services
    • DannyB2 7y ago
      But not just Internet of Things (IoT), it's for Security Hardened Internet of Things (SHIoT).
• Ididntdothis 7y ago
  Seems it enables building of devices for the Amazon ecosystem.
  • m463 7y ago
    Everything becomes an amazon cash register.
• downrightmike 7y ago
  One SDK to run on IOT platforms that should extrapolate the lower level issues and custom APIs away.
• DannyB2 7y ago
  "Alexa", "please set the instant pot to cook for 15 minutes starting at 5:40 PM"
  • donmcronald 7y ago
    OMG. Non-tech people are going to rely on that trash and burn down their houses.
    • vb6sp6 7y ago
      the devices themselves have safety features that are still active
      • beenBoutIT 7y ago
        Verbally setting alarms/timers/reminders or anything based on numbers without receiving visual feedback is bad design. The safety features aren't going to ensure that the food is cooked properly and not burnt to an inedible char just shy of combustion.
        • bspammer 7y ago
          I use an Echo for timing stuff in the kitchen all the time. It repeats the number you said back at you, I've never had a 15 -> 50 minutes type mistake.
          • wojciii 7y ago
            Perhaps you need to be a non-native English speaker before this is a problem.
      • masonic 7y ago
        Including one that can tell that your 10 year old has since taken the Instapot into the bathtub with him to play SeaLab?
        • michaelt 7y ago
          In that case it would be neither more nor less dangerous than a regular pressure cooker. That is to say, potentially lethal, but protected against by education, not having sockets in the bathroom, and having RCD protection on sockets.
• whoisjuan 7y ago
  It's like a mini-OS layer that can be used to integrate Amazon's SDKs. Basically it allows vendors to plug this low-level wrapper on top of their hardware's OS so they can easily add things like Alexa capabilities without writing their own API for that. From what I understand, this is more or less what it does. It's like OpenWRT but for IoT devices and with the single purpose of integrating Amazon's SDKs in your hardware.