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by normloman 3928 days ago
Yeah but that convenience is very useful. I think we're just talking past eachother. Remotes make watching tv way easier. The question is whether some of these internet enabled devices make things easier or not.
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Yup. And we won't know until someone shows us how much we were missing by not having them.

An internet-connected coffee pot or dishwasher is hard to appreciate now. But what if they alerted and called a service guy if they failed? That would be handy. We'd come to hate the non-connected device that didn't appear on our 'household service dashboard' app. It'd be like having a Victrola in the house.