It's funny to me when people try to predict where either the success or failure of a whole concept will come from and when it is supposed to happen. Nobody real

It's funny to me when people try to predict where either the success or failure of a whole concept will come from and when it is supposed to happen. Nobody really knows what IoT is yet. The exact same thing happened in the early days of the web. People thought search wasn't a big deal; they thought people would buy ice online; they thought that the web should be completely overhauled and replaced with binary executables that we could all browse. When it all collapsed the first time, a lot of people thought that the promise of the web was over. IoT is in roughly the same place that the web was in the early 90s. I'm hesitant to say this is a trough of disappointment, because I don't think that enough of the key technologies have emerged yet that are going to make connected things an actual convenience to people. I think the problems that skeptics see actually could be problems, but it really is to early too tell. The problems they see could be problems or they could simply be gaps that haven't been filled yet.