I think the combination of tablet and smart display is the right idea. The Nest Hub copied Amazon's ill conceived idea of a locked down device with anemic spec

I think the combination of tablet and smart display is the right idea. The Nest Hub copied Amazon's ill conceived idea of a locked down device with anemic specs. Amazon's goal was to saturate the market to help push the Prime "flywheel", but who knows what Google's plan was. Home automation license fees? Without any other real business model, the result for Amazon was a fleet of bandwidth sucking machines and a $10 billion loss. Losing money on every device but making it up in volume, so to speak. Fuchsia is simply Google's foray deeper into that black hole of stupidity. Launching a more capable device with a decent OS and proven developer ecosystem could finally make smart displays more useful. I predict if Apple ever launches one, it will have similar properties and run on an iOS derivative rather than some underpowered, minimal functionality, closed device only used for weather and music.