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>>pictur+(OP)
Can someone explain to me what this ecosystem is and the appeal of it?

I have nothing automated in my life, that I know of? I don't have a garage; the door to the house has a key; the lights I turn on with a switch; no Alexa, don't use Siri... I am not exactly opposed to automation, but I am hesitant to share even more demographic data to cloud services.

>>triyam+f5
The lights in my house turn on and off with the rhythm of our lives. We don’t think about turning a light on or off. They do that by themselves. My home knows when the dishwasher is done. My home can silence alerts if I’m on a zoom call. My home knows if the air quality is low and doesn’t turn on the ventilator fan.

Automation is not about having an app for your lights, it’s about not having to think of trivial stuff like turning on a light.

>>op00to+v6
> Automation is not about having an app for your lights, it’s about not having to think of trivial stuff like turning on a light.

I have lived in America my entire life, a relatively comfortable life, and this sentence makes me feel extremely alienated from first world culture.

>>syndic+6A
It’s just that you don’t think about all of the ones you already use. Elevators are the classic example here, or a washing machine.

>>c0pium+cK
Well no, the analogy would be if you got on an elevator and it could only be controlled by an app that you have to log in to use