@Ben @hagins @slagle (or anyone else at SmartThings willing to comment) Is there any way you would be willing to share your vision for the platform with us? Specifically, what do you have in mind for average (non-programmer, non-hobbyist) people to control and automate their homes. I don’t neces…

I’m going to follow this closely as I’m looking forward to hearing what had to be said.

[image] JoeC: Can we all agree that any response from ST is just vision? Whenever someone asks for non-marketing communication from SmartThings, I always express a particular curiosity back to the asker: What do you expect of value from the response(s)? Alex, Jeff, Ben, Tim, Jody, Tyler, et…

I guess I’d like to get a better sense for if SmartThings has the potential to be a viable solution for many millions of households. I’d like to evaluate if they have the potential to be a viable platform for a developer to have an impact on that scope. As a user I’d like to have some level of con…

[image] JoeC: I guess I’d like to get a better sense for if SmartThings has the potential to be a viable solution for many millions of households. I’d like to evaluate if they have the potential to be a viable platform for a developer to have an impact on that scope. As a user I’d like to have…

I’m actually following this thread because I knew the discussion would be interesting… … Hopes fulfilled! ! My comments… Based your faith in the company not on words but on the basic fact that a company is a company for one reason only… To make money. And since they already got your $99.00 dolla…

[image] bamarayne: It basically boils down to free market economics. Market rules can be manipulated for a while, but eventually, yes the market will be the ultimate judge. The HA market (and IoT in general) has been hyped up in recent years to impossible levels. Everyone and their uncle is …

[image] geko: What’s gonna happen next, is in the next market crash (remember 2001?) all weak hands will be wiped out and a handful of strong players will survive. Back in 2001, Amazon.com was the only company out of thousands who survived. That’s how free market (or evolution for that matter) w…

[image] geko: You have to wait for a big rock to hit the ground to see who’s the most fit to survive. I guess my biblical quotes should be coming from Revelations if we’re going to be talking about the figurative Apocalypse…

[image] tgauchat: I guess my biblical quotes should be coming from Revelations if we’re going to be talking about the figurative Apocalypse To not prepare for the end is human nature. Unfortunately, those that do not prepare for the inevitability of the end, can not fully embrace the beauty …

SmartThings company - what is your vision?

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slagle (Tim Slagle) February 8, 2016, 8:31pm 2

Just replying so you know I saw this.

I want to respond and I think we should. Let me circulate this internally for a bit and see if we can come up with a “vision roadmap” of sorts that we can share.

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