Flutterby™! : IoT and the cloud

InfoWorld: Internet of things steals cloud spotlight at AWS Re:Invent:

There's a simple reason: IoT needs the cloud to succeed

When I was a kid, my aunt and uncle were playing in a band at a pavilion on the shores of Lake George. I was there with my grandparents, or maybe my parents, anyway, while the adults were up on the lawn listening to the band, I was down in the playground.

There was a slide and some monkey bars, and there was one of those dome things, and another kid and I became conscious that the kids were running back and forth between these play sites in a wave. So if we moved opposite the wave, we'd have more of the space to ourselves. Until the mass of kids saw that the dome or the slide was empty, and would migrate over to it.

I'm gonna say right now that the IoT on the cloud is a bubble, is all the kids running over to the dome thing.

There's opportunity if we build something distributed that'll really take off once gigabit to the home happens. Something that consumers control, and that doesn't rely on selling all of your home's heating and lighting details to advertisers.

But first we have to get home devices to not need replacement every 3 years.