There’s a class of obvious monitoring or automation features for cheap devices that don’t exist probably because the price/performance is off. Many fall into the “auto shutoff” or “level warning” category. I wonder where the unit economics fails. Sensors? Analog electronics? UI?
OTOH if the bulk of the cost increase is in device specific bill-of-materials costs, like sensor, electronics, an app adds very little except remote control capability (which might be a huge deal).
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I like most "dumb" appliances more. What could be smarter than the tactile-neural interface that has evolved over millions of years to push mechanical buttons and switches? Nothing else comes close in most situations. Consumer automation 100x harder than business applications.
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