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0 pointscatdog9y ago0 comments

> Imagine you didn't have to worry about security, privacy, or out-of-date hardware and software.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I don't need to imagine, security, privacy, or out-of-date hardware and software is a huge problem there, too.

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Cyphase9y ago

> 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 I don't need to imagine, security, privacy, or out-of-date hardware and software is a huge problem there, too.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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