Re:Rust's 2019 Roadmap
by SlowRobotAhead on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @07:12PM
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>The cynic in me thinks all these companies are just continuing to push on something people don't want because it's a gold-mine of data collection opportunities.
No doubt! And the dumbest of IoT products like “connected mattresses” should prove that.
In my own defense, I’m doing a LOT of work to never ask the user for an account or password, never logging personal data, just shipping a nice device that does a helpful thing. But.... there is an obvious temptation to RECORD IT ALL (figure out what to do with it later!), but I’d be a massive hypocrite.
For me it’ll be a selling point that we don’t care who you are just that you have a device and want to do a thing.
The cynic in me thinks all these companies are just continuing to push on something people don't want because it's a gold-mine of data collection opportunities. The optimist wonders if IoT will settle down and mature into spaces where it's actually useful, and "90%...are devices that don’t need to be connected". We'll see, I suppose.