English man spends 11 hours trying to make cup of tea with Wi-Fi kettle

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"Well the kettle is back online and responding to voice control, but now we're eating dinner in dark while lights download a firmware update"

If nothing else that line made the article worthwhile.

This is our future. Tech companies get products 80% there, ship, promise to do the other 20%, realize it's too hard, and so they leave their products to rot.

Yay. /s

Somehow my brain occulted the "kettle" from the title, and I understood it as someone trying to heat a cup of tea by applying Wi-Fi microwaves for 11 hours.

And there are still people here that think the IoT will be brilliant.

it is, but maybe not for the people using it.

Couldn't boil water? Sounds like vapor where?

Reminded me of the guy who spent an extraordinary amount of time trying to sign-in to his Google calendar on his Android-enabled fridge [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10732423

Is his name Arthur Dent?