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by joezydeco 3911 days ago
That's kind of the dirty little secret here, right? This technology has been around forever, it only became attractive and fashionable lately because the smartphone revolution has dropped the price of radio hardware to the point where it can be dropped into everything/anything.

So now we face the challenge of groups that want Stuttgart-Siemens-PLC functionality for Shenzen-ESP-IoT pricing. Oh yeah, and let's skip all that service contract nonsense. I mean why am I paying $20/month in service for a chip that costs $1.50?

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Well and in due time, we'll get all that, and standardized interfaces too.

But we'll still lack useful applications for it at home.