Death spiral gif11/23/2023 It wasn’t until the foundational technology was stable that real end user value-add services began to evolve. HTML was in its infancy and the effort was all about attracting eyeballs with glitzy graphics (and an animated GIF was pretty glitzy at the time). The winners at the time were those who could make a page “stand out”. The Internet was seen as a collection of web pages with content which could be remotely accessed from anywhere in the world. I believe today’s IOT is at the same stage as the Internet as a whole was when the Animated GIF emerged (if you really want to geek out it was actually NAB that enabled the repeating action for which animated GIFs were famous). Applications to control or monitor the devices are abundant, and with the introduction of standards such as Google’s Thread and Apple’s HomeKit, the barrier of entry keeps getting lower. Connectivity is becoming standardized and stable (and thereby transparent). There is an abundance of device manufacturers in the market who are driving innovation. Having been at the center of the Internet craze two decades ago and being a committed pragmatist, I have to learn from its rapid growth (and its even faster death spiral) or I will be doomed to repeat it (experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want).Įven in this early stage of IOT, we know there are three fundamentals that must come together to provide a well-balanced eco-system: economically priced devices (things), reliable connectivity, and a service (beyond just being able to remotely mange/monitor) that wraps everything together in a pretty bow.ĭevices are getting cheaper every day. In many ways this stage is very similar to the early days of the Dot Com era. IOT is still in its infancy and there are many people who are predicting (and influencing) what it will look like when it grows up.
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