Re: Pretty soon, you won't be able to turn them off
"New build properties, on the other hand, will be the reverse: just as car manufacturers are currently obsessed with adding 'connectivity' to their cars, so house builders will soon decide that building a smart house will be a selling point."
Not a chance. Have you ever seen the state of new builds? Try having a quick search for complaints about new estates not having access to the internet, for example. For the most part you can count yourself lucky if you get four watertight walls (roof optional), minor details like working electrics and plumbing are well down the list. New builds are very firmly in the "do slightly less than the legal minimum" area, knowing that few enough people will complain so that cost of fixing and fines will be less than the cost of doing it properly. There's absolutely no chance that any of the big developers will start installing IoT crap in houses unless it's made a legal requirement, and even then it won't actually work until you've ripped it all out and redone it yourself.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
