
Bob O'Donnell
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Before this IoT moment, most people didn’t worry about whether one type of system could talk to another.


If we keep moving in the direction of letting everything just start connecting to everything else, just because it can, we’re in for some very difficult challenges.


It’s not just about a different business model for delivering software, it’s also a different way of providing key functionality.


It’s getting really hard to make major innovations in product categories that are already pretty good.


The Maker Faire feels like people taking control of the technology, instead of the technology taking control of us.


Why does the Internet need “things,” anyway?


Like many new and highly dynamic markets, the wearables business continues to twist and turn.


Somehow the idea became widespread that in order for one device to win, others had to lose.


A vote against “over-featurization” and for intentionally limited product design.


In the future metaOS world, services are not only a critical product differentiator, but the key to a new business model.