What puts you off about IoT Services?

It is the age old tug-of-war between big business that would like to centralize everything and maintain control of a continuous revenue stream; and the individual who wants to have local control and no service fee obligations. Big business invests in centralized services that are attractive enough for end users to subscribe, but eventually the cost comes down to the point where end users can get what they want without subscribing. Not everyone drops out of centralized service models, but there is always demand for local control.

Mainframe computers with end user terminals were king until PCs got enough power to eliminate the need for mainframes.

Then servers with thin clients had a run until memory and disk prices came down to make servers less needed.

Now cloud computing is having a go while central computing can provide better access and analysis of big data.

Presumably phones will eventually have enough power to do much of it locally.

An example is voice recognition. Right now cloud computing has better voice recognition, but off-line voice recognition is rapidly catching up.

Do users want their phone to perform voice recognition or have to connect to the cloud to do it?

I expect most end users will want local control unless they see a compelling application provided by the cloud, but if they could get the same performance locally they would prefer it.

Business decisions not to roll-their-own obviously tend to be made by managers who cannot "roll their own".

It is the age old tug-of-war between big business that would like to centralize everything and maintain control of a continuous revenue stream; and the individual who wants to have local control and no service fee obligations. Big business invests in centralized services that are attractive enough for end users to subscribe, but eventually the cost comes down to the point where end users can get what they want without subscribing. Not everyone drops out of centralized service models, but there is always demand for local control.

Mainframe computers with end user terminals were king until PCs got enough power to eliminate the need for mainframes.

Then servers with thin clients had a run until memory and disk prices came down to make servers less needed.

Now cloud computing is having a go while central computing can provide better access and analysis of big data.

Presumably phones will eventually have enough power to do much of it locally.

An example is voice recognition. Right now cloud computing has better voice recognition, but off-line voice recognition is rapidly catching up.

Do users want their phone to perform voice recognition or have to connect to the cloud to do it?

I expect most end users will want local control unless they see a compelling application provided by the cloud, but if they could get the same performance locally they would prefer it.

Business decisions not to roll-their-own obviously tend to be made by managers who cannot "roll their own".