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IoT at the consumer level is basically this but 100x worse. Personally I think with the advent of usable voice recognition, devices need their own "call tree"
by AtlasBarfed 6y ago
IoT at the consumer level is basically this but 100x worse.
Personally I think with the advent of usable voice recognition, devices need their own "call tree" for setup.
I would also like to take this opportunity to complain about how Bluetooth STILL doesn't work about 50% of the time, in addition to what this article mentioned about HDMI standards (to say nothing of displayport and USB/thunderbolt3 standards lunacy).
Our wireless standards can't interoperate. Our wired standards can't interoperate. And let me add the cherry on top of "our standards can't interoperate". In the era of TCP/IP showing what power a basic standard can have on the world, this is just a travesty.
- robwwilliams 6y agoYes, travesty—but caused by intense commercial competition and what you could call “hub war”. The new LG CX TV+ wants to be the media hub; the new Denon audio-visual receiver wants to be the AVR+ hub for all sources and outputs. Then we have Netflix via the TV or via Apple TV etc. Competitive chaos until a few integrated packages win by securing 2-5 million sales a year minimum. The only players I can imagine pulling this off are Sony and Apple. Do they bring 3D back? Do they force use of their speakers? Time seems right for either to jump.
- AtlasBarfed 6y agoYep, and we run in the XKCD "we now have 13 standards" problem, and if any "one true hope" company wins, it's a closed ecosystem.