Seriously? IoT is a quickly growing, potentially massive and ubiquitous field. Given the shit state of security and technical implementation of its initial era, in very glad that a well-resourced non-profit is helping to create an open standard.
This is an amazing post. Every couple of years, I look at the massive clusterfuck that is the IoT ecosystem, and decide it's not worth the bother. This post nicely encapsulates why.
Worked on industrial IoT for five years from devices to backends. It's all garbage. Nothing works, everything is wrapped in marketing double speak, security is a Shit show and UX is virtually non-existent.
I know for a fact that they've built some utter shite IoT hardware as well. Can't give details, but it's a sensor that gives data which can be used to detect early on the failure of a GE $very_expensive_machine. One of our clients bought hundreds of sensors, and after two years only ~30% of the sensors are providing sensible data. The rest are suffering from constant power failures, or just showing constant data, or even measurements decreasing with time (which is not physically possible).
Or, the IoT market is massively over-hyped. Umm... smart cities, smart cars (used to be called embedded), buh wearables ... $267bn market no way. Security nightmare, drone stalkers, fridge attacks owner etc. (OK exaggerating.)
There will be some cool stuff, sure. But IoT won't take over the world. Will eat my hat in 2020 if I'm wrong of course.
I really hope we'll look back at this fad of android powered wifi domestic IoT devices one day and laugh about how silly it all was.
Not an IoT hater. I've worked for IoT companies, and there's a lot of very smart embedded engineers doing very cool things in the space. But an old android tablet installed in the wall with a WiFI point? oh dear.
What a good story "IoT" about :) Absolutely useless piece of kindergarten "engineering" + insanely inflated prices + real sales for any (low) price cause nobody wants this sh... + crowd of idlers in management growing like bacteria in a Petri dish = "Internet of Things". Nice!
That's pretty damn innovative for Microsoft. It's a shame they didn't have the balls to stick to it. That could've been the first step to electronics in all sorts of places, maybe even would've led to Microsoft spearheading IoT.
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