Hey Seth, I know there's been _quite_ the effort under the hood to make this product a reality and am curious if you would be open to writing a bit about lessons learned to help others learn about the research & development process.
If you're interested in a similar solution (albeit closed sourced and managed) that works in a non-cloud, fully off-line (re: internet) environment. Take a look at http://www.hubitat.com. It supports zigbee, zwave and wifi devices and has strong compatibility with the smartthings ecosystem.
Good point regarding the consumer laptop. The point I'd like to make is that using consumer as a proving ground for a future enterprise / cloud play may be compelling.
Finding the problem and creating a solution along with focusing on the process of creating that solution in order to reduce risk of building the wrong solution. Contrasted to building a solution along with a sane dev and production environment for that solution to fit in, to increase possible iteration velocity by reducing deployment inertia.
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There's someone very high up at Google who believes that Google can disrupt telephony. Fi and the lifeline of Voice are proof of this.
The fact that this project got refunded is also a tell that Google finds value in Voice (maybe). The question I'd ask is what value is it that they see? A couple of thoughts:
* Move voice users out of Hangouts to reduce users of the monolith.
* Test the current user bases' interest in updates - maybe there's something bigger brewing and this update is an experiment to learn about user habits.
* Create a pipeline program to covert users to Fi.
* Release work done over the holiday vacation that was cheap enough / good enough to release.
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The nature of the net us to centralize and then decentralize, it's a cycle. See 90s AOL vs the open net as an example. At this point it's more about usability than it is about access. The open tools that are being built still have a ways to go towards fluid user on-boarding and compelling retention experiences.