The Internet of bricks

Posted Apr 7, 2016 13:15 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: The Internet of bricks by karkhaz
Parent article: The Internet of bricks

This story is repeated again and again and again. First with phones (yes-yes, for more than a century people haven't owned then phone and had no means to buy phone from anyone else except AT&T - remember acoustic couplers?), then cellular phones, now IoT.

First server side and client side components are tightly tied together, then, slowly, they are decoupled more and more and in the end server and client become totally separate entities.

IoT here is a bit perverted since initially people were convinced that they are buying "things" and service would come for free (haha: who would pay for it? TANSTAAFL, you know), but the idea still stays: as long as server and client are tied together they would come as package deal.