Interview with Michael Mendenhall
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Flex describes engineering and manufacturing consumer IoT products for clients like Fitbit and Google, co-innovating a Chromecast in three months and managing the whole supply chain from materials to reverse logistics. Claim: connected devices scale from 10 billion to 50 billion in five years as sensors get tiny and cheap and cloud platforms provide infrastructure. Notes interoperability beats single standards today (mentions about 16 radio transmitters), highlights Tesla as a large live example with OTA software updates, and frames privacy acceptance around clear consumer value.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:45Example Fitbit
- 2:24Where is this going technologically
- 3:38Is a standard coming
- 4:22Privacy implications
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