Imagine you didn't have to worry about security, privacy, or out-of-date hardware and software.
But you have to worry about this and weight cost and benefit, it's just not worth the hassle most of the time,
But just imagine if smartphones and tablets today were in the same poor state the IoT ecosystem is currently in. There would be a non-trivial amount (more) people wondering if they were worth the trouble.
I don't need to imagine, security, privacy, or out-of-date hardware and software is a huge problem there, too.
But you have to worry about this and weight cost and benefit, it's just not worth the hassle most of the time,
Perhaps you missed that I said, "And of course those are all real issues that can absolutely weigh against any benefits." The point still stands: "tl;dr: Potential benefits of IoT, while they certainly have to be weighed against the potential issues that currently exist, are still potential benefits."
I don't need to imagine, security, privacy, or out-of-date hardware and software is a huge problem there, too.
Sure, that certainly crossed my mind, but it's just not as bad at a technical level as IoT is right now, though as far as final impact that has to be weighted by market penetration.
I probably could have come up with a better example, but I was dead tired when I wrote that. :)
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But you have to worry about this and weight cost and benefit, it's just not worth the hassle most of the time,
I don't need to imagine, security, privacy, or out-of-date hardware and software is a huge problem there, too.
Perhaps you missed that I said, "And of course those are all real issues that can absolutely weigh against any benefits." The point still stands: "tl;dr: Potential benefits of IoT, while they certainly have to be weighed against the potential issues that currently exist, are still potential benefits."
Sure, that certainly crossed my mind, but it's just not as bad at a technical level as IoT is right now, though as far as final impact that has to be weighted by market penetration.
I probably could have come up with a better example, but I was dead tired when I wrote that. :)