{"id":19575,"date":"2013-11-11T02:51:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T02:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/q-why-didnt-someone-do-this-before-a-people\/"},"modified":"2013-11-11T02:51:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T02:51:41","slug":"q-why-didnt-someone-do-this-before-a-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/q-why-didnt-someone-do-this-before-a-people\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Q. Why didn\u2019t someone do this before? <\/p>\n<p>A. People have been frustrated with these things for 40 years, but the things didn\u2019t change much, because it was a price game. Now we have enough technology that we can optimize for really low cost points and bring a capability that has never been there before. The key technologies are communications, algorithms, sensors and user experience, running over a network to the cloud. You have to go top to bottom, with knowledge not just of design, but of the device, the network, the data services, and back down to the sensors \u2014 and the battery life implications of all that. You need to have expertise at every one of those levels. Then we do a lot of analytics on products, sales and customer support.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Fantastic interview with Tony Fadell on how design isn\u2019t something that\u2019s applied to a single vector.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/07\/nests-tony-fadell-on-smart-objects-and-the-singularity-of-innovation\/?_r=1&amp;\">Nest\u2019s Tony Fadell on Smart Objects, and the Singularity of Innovation &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/femmebot.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">femmebot<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. Why didn\u2019t someone do this before? A. People have been frustrated with these things for 40 years, but the things didn\u2019t change much, because it was a price game. Now we have enough technology that we can optimize for really low cost points and bring a capability that has never been there before. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-55J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}