[quote=spdrun]Sure, but none of this requires Scroggle, Crapple, Amazon, or M$ to act as intermediaries. Just a few sensors, a hub/brain box, and a few motor controllers.
If there was a common standard for connecting to devices in the home, I shouldn’t need to use an intermediary to fire up the jacuzzi either, just connect to my home’s router (ideally with an outward-facing static ipv6 addy) and be able to see my Jacuzzi’s mobile web interface directly.[/quote]
Why don’t you just go buy those instead of dissing honest, ‘do-no-evil’ nice corporates like crapple, amazon etc.?
They need to intermediate on the data to help people save energy because the people are too freaking lazy to shut the lights off or set the thermostat before running off to their low-wage jobs in the morning. They would rather slave away for longer hours and oursource that job to msft or aapl to shut the lights off for them
