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Not a big fan of this account. It's gone political and completely anti-progress. They systematically denigrate any kind of IoT. I'm not anti-IoT per se, I think
by patrickaljord 6y ago
Not a big fan of this account. It's gone political and completely anti-progress. They systematically denigrate any kind of IoT. I'm not anti-IoT per se, I think most IoT is bad but on the other hand I recognize that it can be pretty useful in many cases and once the tech become more stable it will get better.
What this account is doing is like systematically making fun of all the early flying machines that failed in grotesque ways, until they started working. We shouldn't systematically attack and ridicule any attempt to innovate.
- freeone3000 6y agoIf those early flying machines were mass produced and sold to consumers, they absolutely should be ridiculed. Products do not deserve the same protection as prototypes.
- mastazi 6y agoIn the early aughts I had a media player that you could plug into your TV, you would control it with a remote and play whatever movies you had on disk. Nowadays (Apple TV, Chromecast, Fire TV etc), you have to create an account with Apple or Google or Amazon just in order to use the device at all, then another account with Netflix, Disney Plus and every other streaming service you are going to use. Did the OS receive an OTA update that you don't like? Tough luck, there's no easy way to avoid those. And don't even think about playing back files that reside on disk, even if you legally own a copy of the movie. Sometimes "progress" is not the most desirable outcome, at least from the point of view of consumers. That Twitter account, the way I see it, is anti-dark-patterns, not anti-progress.
- thinkingemote 6y agoIf even you think most iot is shit, you shouldn't really be surprised or upset that a twitter account called the internet of shit also thinks so.