Nah, it’s real. Just early days yet. You are falling prey to the skills=vision fallacy. Learning how to work hands-on on a technology does not necessarily mean you’ll have the vision to see what it’s good for. Many good engineers fall into this trap and get blindsided later.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Nest is good, Alexa is good, smart TVs are good, dropcam could be good...on high end, Tesla cars are good Give it a decade. Lots of kinks being worked out. Already far superior to when I studied this stuff in the ops.
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Smart lights and blinds are good, car remote control and location services are good.
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We use Alexa powered lamp switches and that works great. Maybe voice is the magic protocol.
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Yeah voice is for sure the domestic magic. Phone-as-magic-wand only works if the "magic" is faster than the boring way. Voice is usually more convenient than switches for me because I'm usually turning on multiple lights at once or changing the color of bulbs.
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UI friction of general purpose device. Actual thermostat: walk over, turn knob. Phone thermostat: unlock phone, search for app, launch app, wait for it to load, select house, select thermostat, change temperature. Email/search vs knob turning. Very different behaviors.
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Yet I use my nest app far more than I ever did my old manual thermostat You underestimate value of staying on couch or in bed!
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It's a metaphor mismatch. Wands are ALL about pointing at things. Which is what makes them fun. Phones don't have a "what am I pointing at?" sensor. TV Remotes make better wands than phones do. At least they're directional.
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AR can match them back up nicely, great example:https://twitter.com/shekitup/status/1063110851484377088 …
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