Will SmartThings have a future? (2019)

[JDRoberts]

Since the original poster was specific to SmartThings, I think we should leave this thread to that. There are already lots of threads on IOT adoption rates and the general future of IOT, so general discussions can go in one of those.

Here’s a good one which is quite recent:

Here's why smart home hubs seem to be dying a slow, painful death - Stacey on

And another good one, although older. (And which you yourself started, btw. Why don’t you update that for 2019 with some new thoughts?)

Blue sky discussion (moved from elsewhere) - what a mature smart home might comprise

At the behest of another poster, I moved this from another thread so it would not interfere with people finding information. Please feel free to share your thoughts. This post is kinda scary. Not in a bad way, just in terms of a more general user acceptance. As I along with many others have observed, the smart home - while long dreamed - remains in its infancy from a concept/implementation standpoint. For the smart home to really begin to gain general acceptance, it needs to NOT have to do “CORE pistons” or require a complex half-hour project to simply AskAlexa “is my garage door open?”. The smart home, to gain real acceptance, will have to A) distinguish one voice from another, for both practical and security reasons. You do NOT want a random stranger to be able to shout “Alexa, unl…