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Eight Reasons Why the Internet of Things is
Doomed
Jason Bloomberg
President
@theebizwizard
About Jason Bloomberg
• President of Intellyx
• Advise companies on their digital transformation initiatives & help vendors communicate their agility stories
• Write for Forbes, Wired, & DevX on Digital Transformation
• Buy my latest book, The Agile Architecture Revolution
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#1: Security
Too easy to hack!
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• RFID?
– Security Badges
– Passports
• Baby monitors??
#2: Privacy
• IoT means Big Data
• Big Data mean more information about IoT users
• Good for the marketer, bad for the consumer!
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#3: Digital Fatigue
• Too much noise
• Too many options
• Consumers are fickle
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Can’t we just have some
peace & quiet already??
#3a: Shame
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Nobody wants a wearable to
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#4: Ecosystems
• Apple? Google? Who will run the IoT?
• Open standards are sticks for beating weaker ecosystems into submission
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#5: No Killer App
• Google Glass? No thanks.
• Apple Watch? Don’t think so.
• Refrigerators that order milk?
Solution without a problem.
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One might come along at any time, but until then, we got nothin’
#6: Enterprises Will Screw the Pooch
• IoT is the frosting, existing business is the cake
• IoT success will require digital transformation
• No shortcuts!
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Warning: organizational change ahead
#7: Vendors Smell Blood in the Water
• Big Data about users is the IoT prize
• How to put consumer in control?
• Would defeat the purpose for vendors
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And the blood is yours!
#8: Excess Hype
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• Similar to dot.com bubble
• When people say “believe the hype” time to sell all your stock and run!
What about the Industrial Internet?
• Machine-to-Machine
• Where the big money in IoT is today, except…
–Nobody in their right mind would actually put a turbine or a locomotive on the Internet
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What Do I Really Think?
• Consumer empowerment essential
– Especially concerning user identities
• Big shakeout (or several) coming, but there will be survivors
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/Periods of disruption lead to intense innovation, which feeds further disruption
Jason Bloomberg
President, Intellyx
@theebizwizard
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