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I will second that eventually smart home (accent on home, not household) will go full wired, while semi-disposable gadgets may well stay wireless, but the idea
by baybal2 6y ago
I will second that eventually smart home (accent on home, not household) will go full wired, while semi-disposable gadgets may well stay wireless, but the idea of fully wireless home automation is now out of the windows for so many reasons.
I had a discussion with one guy from IKEA who bid on "full wireless" because "it is where Apple, and Google go."
The conversation went all went fine for him until a moment of Zen enlightenment hit him: "Outside Europe, people live in concrete houses." That very moment the smile vanishes from his face, and the guy looked like he felt a total facepalm moment.
- tda 6y agoThe only place I know where a lot of houses are made of wood are Scandinavia and North America. In the rest or Europe most houses are made of bricks and/or concrete as far as I can tell.
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- polack 6y agoAround half of the population in Scandinavia lives in apartments made out of concrete. It's not plausible that IKEA don't know that.