Complex and bloated

Posted May 13, 2025 20:46 UTC (Tue) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Complex and bloated by Cyberax
Parent article: A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant: general impressions

> Companies like Lowe's tried to jump on the "smart home" bandwagon (IRIS) and get access to all those tasty, tasty data. And it failed entirely, they got nothing but losses.

I'd posit that has more to do with folks simply not *purchasing* this crap, because the value-add for "smart home" to non-gear-fetishists is approximately zero.

Complex and bloated

Posted May 14, 2025 6:48 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

> I'd posit that has more to do with folks simply not *purchasing* this crap, because the value-add for "smart home" to non-gear-fetishists is approximately zero.

Companies forget that the "value add" can easily be NEGATIVE to the consumer. We want a BASIC phone service with OUR choice of add-ons. If our phone company isn't careful they might find I try to bring the weight of disability charities down on them because we can't turn off unwanted extras.

Last time this happened we got refunded three months of phone charges because the service was - to put it bluntly - life threateningly bad! Then we recently upgraded and the mess has come back ...

Cheers,
Wol