How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice
IMHO IoT is a bad idea.<p>Recently we had the choice of buying heat pumps with a standard infrared remote control, or heat pumps with wifi.<p>You can control them from your ipad! As a bit of a hacker I&#x27;d love to play with this and see if I could attach them to temperature sensors and smarts around the house.<p>Tempting, but then a colleague pointed out that it almost certainly comes pre-packaged with bullshit closed source software from a bullshit company, full of bullshit security holes and probably never gets updates. Your chances of plugging into it with a random python script are close to nil. If it ever breaks, you&#x27;ll have to pay $100 for some technically illiterate heat pump repairman to try and diagnose the issues. Good luck with that, and no thanks.