I agree with Roger Pena: "This is an excellent, excellent article." By contrasting data network effects with regular network effects, it succinctly paints a very clear picture of both.
This is an excellent, excellent article. Could not agree any more with this perspective and view. This article fits perfect into what is going on in the IoT market space as of today. Most companies are trying to build valuable data driven business modeled outcomes for their given market space into IoT, instead of focusing on the networking enabled interactions between machines to machines and machines to people. Spending years of research into IoT, this is something I have never understood on why companies focus on data driven model first in IoT, vrs the enablement of continuous scalable networking interaction to IoT. Big Data will follow in accordance to how these interactions play out as the ecosystems scales. Which in turn, makes the ecosystem more valuable to both users of the ecosystem: machines and people. What the history shows is that there is a cap to the scale of these ecosystem to be created in these data driven models in IoT. Nest, Smart meters, and to be next in line will be the smart speaker. I came across a stat in listening to the book "Bezonomics, by Brian Dumaine" that stated that for every smart speaker sold for the home there is 1 to 2 accessories or devices bought to extend the speaker's capabilities, nothing beyond that. In my opinion this points to your article.
I agree with Roger Pena: "This is an excellent, excellent article." By contrasting data network effects with regular network effects, it succinctly paints a very clear picture of both.
Dave Duchesneau, CTO
Scrutiny, Inc.
Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
This is an excellent, excellent article. Could not agree any more with this perspective and view. This article fits perfect into what is going on in the IoT market space as of today. Most companies are trying to build valuable data driven business modeled outcomes for their given market space into IoT, instead of focusing on the networking enabled interactions between machines to machines and machines to people. Spending years of research into IoT, this is something I have never understood on why companies focus on data driven model first in IoT, vrs the enablement of continuous scalable networking interaction to IoT. Big Data will follow in accordance to how these interactions play out as the ecosystems scales. Which in turn, makes the ecosystem more valuable to both users of the ecosystem: machines and people. What the history shows is that there is a cap to the scale of these ecosystem to be created in these data driven models in IoT. Nest, Smart meters, and to be next in line will be the smart speaker. I came across a stat in listening to the book "Bezonomics, by Brian Dumaine" that stated that for every smart speaker sold for the home there is 1 to 2 accessories or devices bought to extend the speaker's capabilities, nothing beyond that. In my opinion this points to your article.
Just my added thoughts.
Nice work!