How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice

Re:How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice by enraged_camel on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @01:58AM (#10811116)

Not really related to the article itself, but I'm developing a serious aversion to the phrase "Internet of Things". It's part of the same trend that created the term "Web 2.0": full of hype and bullshit.

Why not just call it "Internet" like we always have? Was it not made of "things" before?

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Re:How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice by collyw on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @02:20AM (#10811167)

To me it implies putting a chip in it where it really wasn't needed.

http://weputachipinit.tumblr.com/

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Re:How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice by liw on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @02:38AM (#10811194)

I maintain that IoT is short for "Insecurity of Things", not "Internet of Things". Makes the IoT hype so much easier to deal with.

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Re:How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice by isolate on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @03:53AM (#10811352)

Internet of Thrones :)

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Re:How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice by TeMPOraL on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @10:06AM (#10812300)

Internet of Toilets. Fits well with Cloud-to-Butt extension.

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Re:How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice by Chris2048 on Thursday December 31, 2015 @11:24AM (#10818242)

Uh, Butt-to-cloud, surely?

I might want to tweet my poops, naturally; but what data does my butt need?

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Re:How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice by coldtea on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @03:48AM (#10811340)

>Was it not made of "things" before?

Yeah, but of things like routers, PC, smartphones etc.

Internet of Things is the BS idea of "internet of all the things" -- sensors and chips on your toaster, fridge, coke can, cat, hairpiece, ...

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