Comment by m12k

What's HN's thoughts on IoT? To me it looks like yet another buzzword from the "wouldn't it be neat?" crowd (the same people who previously gave us a lot of hype about Semantic Web and P2P social networks) but as before none of the applications are actually worth the hassle, this prevents critical mass from ever being reached, and in reality it's mostly just a way for appliance companies who are already overcharging me for non-repairable planned-obsolescence-ridden products, to overcharge me a bit more. I'm glad someone without a profit motive is taking a stab at it, but I still fail to see the actual uses of it being worth the hassle.