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smart home devices

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Ben Kaufman · across every show →

Everything said about smart home devices, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kaufman: Smart homes will learn user behavior automatically instead of manual setup
“I don't think the average user in the middle of the country is going to be setting up robots or recipes or whatever techie word we put on it. What's going to happen though is you know, we can get, we can start to get really smart, right? So if we see that you …”
Ben Kaufman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:34 a16z Podcast | Gateway Gadgets to the Internet of Things
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sofman: Existing smart home products are isolated end devices in single rooms
“Right now, there's nothing that actually stitches the home together in that way. Everything is just an end device in a room.”
Boris Soffman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:19 a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots
Feb 26, 2019 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sinofsky: Most niche smart home gadgets will fade like electric carving knives
“That we're going to see all of this fading of stuff, that like a whole bunch of stuff was going to end up being electric carving knives.”
Steven Sinofsky Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 37:16 a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
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