Oh, this is just useless cloud (read “dream of perpetual revenue with additional “convenience services”) features from the era of IoT hype. Now things started i

Oh, this is just useless cloud (read “dream of perpetual revenue with additional “convenience services”) features from the era of IoT hype. Now things started integrating AI features which are more integrated into the whole system and needs more “cloud” access. Once the AI hype falls(either bubble bursting if glorious “auto-complete” marketed as novel thing or consolidated by few key uses similar to image processing, pharma etc) and these “AI” integrations are shut down as “unsustainable”, the devices will be also bricked. Cloud(read IoT fever) at least can be mitigated by somehow mocking the thing the device is looking for, the unpredictable AI mocking is …