Hey HN, first time posting here :) !
I love new tech, but I'm cautious about home IOT devices like assistants, smart bulbs, smart locks, (...), because of privacy and cybersecurity issues. Even though they offer benefits, they don't seem very popular in France.
What do you think stops people from adopting personal IOT devices? Is it mostly privacy and cybersecurity, or is there another reason?
My wife bought an Alexa speaker for the kid's room, to help with setting alarms and remembering things, playing podcasts at night, and to use as an intercom: but all electronic devices in the kid's room exist in a baffling state of perpetual reorganization, everything with a plug being unplugged, moved around, and maybe or maybe not plugged back in, seemingly every day, for no apparent reason; so the speaker is mostly unusable.
Smart bulbs, I have never really seen the point: turning lights on and off is not difficult enough that any better a solution than the traditional switch would seem to be necessary.
I suppose I spend enough time dealing with tech as it is, and when I am home, I just want things to work. Simpler is better.
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