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I'd be happy with IoT appliances iff:
--They weren't designed to fail because of poor power conditioning and thermal management.
--They weren't vectors for botnets due to poor security.
--They ran on my personal cloud or LAN rather than some godawful Chinese server.
--I had veto power over all SW updates, and I could roll them back.
--They didn't constantly beep at me as if I were their servant, rather than the other way around.
--Their MTBF was longer than "dumb" appliances rather than shorter.
I can design systems like this, but apparently the big white goods manufacturers cannot, or don't want to.
There is a market for it.
I'd be happy with IoT appliances iff:
--They weren't designed to fail because of poor power conditioning and thermal management.
--They weren't vectors for botnets due to poor security.
--They ran on my personal cloud or LAN rather than some godawful Chinese server.
--I had veto power over all SW updates, and I could roll them back.
--They didn't constantly beep at me as if I were their servant, rather than the other way around.
--Their MTBF was longer than "dumb" appliances rather than shorter.
I can design systems like this, but apparently the big white goods manufacturers cannot, or don't want to.