In article , Roger Blake
wrote:

IoT is here.

Not in my house it isn't. IoT is a terrible, terrible idea. Hordes
of cheap, poorly-designed internet-connected devices most of which
will never see security updates. What could possibly go wrong?

not all iot devices are cheap crap. many of them get regular automatic
updates.

win10 also has automatic security updates, except there are those who
criticize that, some of whom actively disable it.

And without needing a host like Windows as the middleman
we're all better off. The cloud is the host and the device is now the
node. The devices are getting a lot smarter now.

All this "cloud" nonsense is just marketspeak for using someone else's
hardware as a server.

or your own hardware, and it's not nonsense. there's a lot of
functionality that is not possible any other way.

A return to the server and terminal computing of
the 1970s.

not really.