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Re:HomeKit by rwallace on Monday June 02, 2014 @10:18PM (#7837789)
That list of standards is ridiculously unreasonable and unrealistic. If we had consistently followed them, we'd still be arguing about whether to start banging the rocks together. Anything as daring as the printing press or electricity would be utterly unthinkable.

I don't know whether home automation will take off, but I think the deciding factor will be the same as it was with most of the other things we've invented since we came down from the trees: whether the benefits on the whole exceed the costs.

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Re:HomeKit by noblethrasher on Monday June 02, 2014 @10:56PM (#7837912)
Well, that was largely the state of affairs for computers for a while: From 1998–2007, I could reasonably expect 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 with respect to both desktops and laptops.

We do seem to have regressed because of the phenomena of “worse hardware through software”, and the over-dependence on cloud services.

I'm also much more skeptical that software version n is unambiguously better than version n-1, having been burned a few too many times (that's also why sites like this exists: http://www.oldversion.com/).

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