Hacking Your Dishwasher

NOBODY trusts IoT vendors to support software on the devices. IoT is like "those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it" on a 10 year cycle. Someone tries to enter the space with a range of products. They get apathetic after five years. The devices and software are cast off. Consumers are pissed off. Consumers refuse to buy "smart" devices.

The unsolved question of IoT is: how to keep a smart device working correctly for decades? We can't get google to promise updates of ITS OWN PHONES for ITS OWN OPERATING SYSTEM for longer than three years.

I remember when the Essential phone launched, to get people to try to jump ship to a new company, they promised an "escrowed" budget for update maintenance. It might have been five years.

I think you'd need this, except the escrow is for 30 years at a minimum. I think we'd need regulations.

This would likely drive huge adoption of open source and standards. Because those are a lot easier to fund / support / be compatible with that the constantly churning internal dev teams.