Hawkinson: Open IoT platforms will succeed and force closed systems open
Alex Hawkinson · Panel Discussion // NYC Data Business Meetup // May 2013 · Dec 5, 2013 · at 10:13
Alex Hawkinson, founder and CEO of SmartThings, discusses platform architecture strategies at Data Driven NYC.
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“There's enough reasons to sort of have an open, connected platform, in our view, that it will drive to be commercially successful. So it'll sort of Certainly be there alongside some of these closed efforts, and I think ultimately it'll sort of force a lot of people open.”
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