Things would have been better two years ago if we would have all been one, big happy family
Until this point in its technology and cultural maturity, the Internet of Things has been just one giant morass of stuff. All of the Internet-connected things are ever multiplying, iterating and cascading down the hill of technology into a massive avalanche that threatens to consume the technologists that build it and the public that wants to buy it. Every company wanted to be first. To lock in their niche of a market projected to be in the trillions of dollars.