Supporting Tor is a niche thing, but... it would be very very helpful if everything in the IoT could be persuaded to go through a customer-controlled local gateway, which could proxy, rate-limit, redirect, and firewall connections according to the owner's policy.
Every device that reaches back to the mothership with a proprietary protocol is another device which gets discarded when the mothership loses interest in supporting it, and probably has major holes in it as well.
Every device that reaches back to the mothership with a proprietary protocol is another device which gets discarded when the mothership loses interest in supporting it, and probably has major holes in it as well.