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Re:Kisha – The umbrella you'll never lose by vinceguidry on Thursday December 18, 2014 @12:37PM (#8768524)
Where you see hell I see market forces making everyone freer and more powerful.

Once everything has intelligence, we'll need to manage that intelligence. We need one phone app and not dozens.

There's only one thing I can see that can make that happen. Open protocols. Open device APIs. Then we can make our own management apps. Oh what a wonderful day that will be.

When I can coordinate my bathroom scale with the app that manages my grocery list. When I can automatically start my car at 8:30 am, but only if my shower ran. When I can actually teach my house to understand whether I'm actually there or not.

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Re:Kisha – The umbrella you'll never lose by smoyer on Thursday December 18, 2014 @12:45PM (#8768569)
Yet that same phenomenon means that losing your phone feels like losing all the objects tracked by your phone. I agree that this can be done well if we try but it should also be so resilient that you can be on a new phone with the same applications, data and settings in just a few minutes.
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