Re: Making things simple
I like manual controls.
Do you still get out of your chair to push buttons on your TV and DVD players or do you use a remote control?
IoT - despite the nonsense of internet connected toaster and the like - is all about making things easier for us, allowing things to be remote controlled when that makes sense. IoT success will be far less glamorous than vendors would have us believe in promoting the technology to us.
Ignore what vendors say it could do and simply consider how it could be useful for you. It will likely make a whole lot more sense then.
How many wouldn't want a handy "f--k off" button for when cold callers ring the landline and the answer phone kicks in with "about your accident/PPI claim"? Perhaps an IoT call ID unit which could email Ofcom the number of cold callers, deluge them in complaints until they do something about them? All at the push of a button.