Main point is not about IoT, it is about how many vendors would be needed to provide plurality in the market. With multiple vendors quality will be low. If we

Main point is not about IoT, it is about how many vendors would be needed to provide plurality in the market. With multiple vendors quality will be low. If we go the other way around so for example we take Synology and Qnap to provide solutions for this it will be not much different than FB and Google owning all the data. Those companies have know how to do "server appliances" but then they will basically have an ownership of software and hardware and updates for those. Which in the end achieves nothing because what is the point of having local servers running proprietary hardware and software when you have the same currently, only that servers are somewhere else.