Re:Works With Nest
by brianmcc on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @10:00AM
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I really, really, wish we could skip the whole vhs/betamax stage for once :-( Not only is it tiresome, it inhibits adoption across the board, we've all been there too many times before.
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Re:Works With Nest
by nicksergeant on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @04:05PM
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I'm not so sure. Doesn't this stage allow the market to dictate which features are important to (albeit early-adopter) consumers?
Re:Works With Nest
by Mister_Snuggles on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @04:48PM
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In a way it does, but it also hurts the early adopters that picked the wrong standard.
As a kid I was in a Betamax family. After that, I've learned to not be an early adopter when companies start pulling this garbage.
It's probably unavoidably a time of turmoil - with so much at stake there's a disincentive for all companies to universally "place nice".
A cambrian explosion of standards and partnerships from which most likely one or two durable standards will emerge, hopefully the "best", is natural - but painful if you're impatient to just get something done.