Popular Smart Home Links Shared (Week of 23-29 October) We had over 7.9K shares last week in the Smart Home space. The previous week, I pegged the theme for the 5.9K shares as “using the present tense” in the Smart Home. I put forth the argument that we need to be talking about the […]
The numbers are in. Ring continues to dominate the DIY Smart Doorbell Camera market with respect to consumer acceptance. Fully shedding the grumpy Doorbot customers, consumers rewarded Ring with a Net Promoter Score of over 40%, while their nearest competitors all have negative NPS numbers, meaning that detractors outnumber promoters for Skybell, August, ZModo and […]
With the recent attack on Twitter and others using zombified (I know, the day AFTER Halloween, right?) Smart Home devices, we figured it was time to update the world on what we have been seeing in the data regarding privacy and security. Below is the most recent snapshot of the past two months of mentions […]
Popular Smart Home Links Shared (Week of 16-22 October) We had over 5.7K shares last week of the Smart Home genre and our theme is bringing the Smart Home into the present tense. Despite the fact that all four of the most highly shared conversations from last week were positive, only two were written from […]
Last week’s theme for the roughly 4,000 shares of Smart Home conversations is the struggle to make the Smart Home practical. On the downside, the most highly shared link was that of a Smart Home zealot and second was a cartoon lampooning security in the Smart Home. Contrasting the over-the-top nature of Simeon Tuitt’s house […]
Monday, 13 June, Apple finally revealed what their latest efforts for HomeKit have produced. In the 3 minutes and 44 seconds Apple spent unveiling their new Home App (about 3% of the entire keynote), there was not a lot of time to cover some of the glaring holes in Apple’s Smart Home strategy moving […]