Improving reliability: Can’t we just run locally?

[geko]

@joshd

Keep the cloud but make it solely for pushing application and firmware updates to the Hub

This is not going to happen because Samsung/SmartThings business strategy is tied to the cloud. You can read more about it this this thread:

How does ST make its money?

I got the ST Hub and some other ST items along with some GE dimmers (that’s where most of my $$ have gone). And now I just sit back and play around with programming it integrating with Sonos and Echo and such. But how does ST make it’s money? I’m not paying a subscription so there’s no ongoing revenue stream yet here they are releasing updates, upgrading their infrastructure and all the things that I expect them to do but how do they afford it? They’ve got some back end processing that has to happen which isn’t the overhead of other systems that I buy and expect bug fixes and update for. And that’s the part I don’t get. How can they afford this back end processing without monthly subs? Look, I’m not looking for another monthly bill…I’m just trying to figure out how they stay in busi…