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		jrobn on Oct 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro I hate conspiracies but I honestly think the IoT concept is an extremely terrible idea and perhaps even a cultural and societal nuclear bomb.

ativzzz on Oct 13, 2020 [–]

IoT is much more useful for business than consumer use. For instance adding tons of sensors to expensive equipment like a fleet of trucks.

vbezhenar on Oct 14, 2020 | [–]

It also would allow to release product with buggy and incomplete firmware because you can always push an update, right?

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