I suspect the quickest way to find out if this is LoraWAN or Zigbee or Weightless will be to keep an eye on who switches to a Mongo/Redis style "commons clause" of "SSPL" license... ;-)
Just like Apple packaging up CPUs and memory chips. I think most people in tech having a hard time to understand that UX is everything. You can take the Athena example of AWS, even though it is just PrestoDB the difference of UX is enormous. A data scientist (end user) cannot download presto compile it, create a EC2 cluster with failover push it there, configure it, performance tune it and keep updating it but she/he can got to AWS console and pull up the Athena interface and type in a query. This is why "just packing" is very important and people are willing to pay for it.
(I do, though, have some sympathy for the problems companies/projects like Mongo and Redis have where Amazon makes all the money off their products without contributing to the development of them. )
If I'm building something to give connectivity to dog tags, why not do something simpler?
I'm personally rooting for this to bomb badly.
https://www.fastcompany.com/1290466/sonys-long-list-format-f...
What profit would companies have made if they'd privatized TCP and the internet as we know it never was able to take off?
A world in which you build an extremely valuable network which benefits everyone, is a world where the profit itself is more valuable, the value of anything is higher.
IPX/SPX, right?
Fuck this "all in one ecosystem" mentality. :\