The Hub of the Smart Home

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I like how he mentions Facebook of all things as a model of how the IoT should work.

So, after we could all witness the massive conflicts of interest (with regards to their users) and privacy problems that emerge when there is a single entity that collects, stores and distributes your data, we should do the same thing with the IoT, except, this time we'll give this entity physical access to our house.

I agree with his sentiment that this will be the likely future. I just disagree that this is a developent to look forward to.

As for the argument that finding a common interface to turn on a lightbulb is impossible, because <i>our</i> lightbulb is so special, I dont buy this. Standards like DLNA show that it is possible to develop interfaces for much more sophisticated problems and actually make them work in the real world.

I don't believe NEST or any other device will ever be the "hub", that is my opinion, open to discuss about it.

I think that the author says that he doesn't think there will be a "hub". And, personally, I agree on this.

I agree. However, there's a HUGE need for a hub of some kind. Possibly, open for anybody to develop on top of it.

Totally, but I don't think it's going to be a physical device.

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