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I think the group of people who would buy something with "smart" in the name and also really care about reliability is pretty small.

For instance, most people who want a reliable mattress would buy one that doesn't require, or allow configuration.

It seems to me that most of the home automation enthusiasts are actually into configuration and troubleshooting as a hobby. And maybe doing party tricks. There's nothing wrong with that. But I don't think there are enough people to really make this badge work.



This is a weird take, especially in an environment where so many products are now “smart” whether you want them to be or not.


If the products are smart even if I don't want them to be, it's even easier for them to not have this certification badge, even if I want them to.


I wasn’t talking about the hypothetical certification. I was talking about this:

> I think the group of people who would buy something with "smart" in the name and also really care about reliability is pretty small.


Oh yes, that's true. A lot of people probably end up with smart stuff who might rather have dumb things.


Definitely. I bought a smart tv because I wanted an OLED and at the time there were no dumb OLED tvs. I imagine that’s still the case.




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