Does anyone want it? I maintain there are very few consumers pounding the table demanding that their TVs, cell phones, tablets, refrigerators, and thermostats be connected. If it just started appearing in homes I'm sure no one would object. But the fact remains that years after we started hearing about the notion of the connected home (well, for me it would be 1998 when I toured NCR's lab in London where they featured a concept called the Microwave Bank) it still hasn't happened. But John Biggs suggested in TechCrunch yesterday that Samsung has "finally cracked it" ("Why Samsung Is The Next Apple"). As I state in my comment to his post, I don't think there's a code to crack yet. The connected home will happen. But it's on a slow (but escalating) path. Have to look at the nature of consumer behavior and proxy adoption before declaring a winner in a space that doesn't even exist yet.
