[supergeek133]

Running a platform costs money, many IoT products turn cost negative quickly if you don't introduce some type of value added service/ongoing revenue.

That being said I've always been a huge proponent of allowing some type of local control. Think of people in the automation market (Control 4, CEDIA type stuff) where it would simply be faster.

Even Google/Amazon allow local lambda function type activities that would be much better experience if we allowed local control.

But that also changes your security landscape.