This week the smart home got some new capabilities with Philips Hue announcing a new HomeKit enabled bridge that also will be upgraded to support the newly announced Nest Weave protocol. Kevin Tofel and I discuss both the new bridge and the new Nest Weave protocol and whether or not we want to keep investing in new gear to upgrade our networks. We also touch on the new cloud offerings announced by Amazon and Microsoft for developers looking to build connected products.
Our guest this week Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (pictured above), who is a design consultant and the creator of the Goodnight Lamp, joined me to discuss consumerism and selling the internet of things. We touched on product lifecycles, again on the Hue bridge and even about designing for sustainability and the responsibility that connected device designers have to consumers and the environment. She came to a pretty grim conclusion, but it’s good food for thought, especially if you haven’t bought into the connected device bonanza yet.
Host: Stacey Higginbotham and Kevin Tofel
Guest: Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino of Design Swarm
- Should you upgrade your Philips Hue bridge to the latest version?
- A deep dive into the Nest Weave protocol
- Consumerism and the IoT. Is this what we want?
- If you buy your connected device today, be prepared to suffer.
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Great podcast. We’ve been thinking a lot about the unit economics of our product from a consumer standpoint here at Notion.
I think it’s really important for IOT companies to build hardware that’s forward looking. Meaning you should be able to drastically improve it capabilities over time. The question is, how do you make these updates significant enough that customers will pay for them. You see Telsa do this at scale.
Would love to know your thoughts!