This week Kevin and I kick off the show with our thoughts on the future of hearables before explaining why we think Apple joined the Thread Group and what it means for future HomeKit products. From there we talked about a new report suggesting that IoT will be a $520 billion industry by 2021 and how enterprise and industrial IoT has stalled. A reader tip led us to valuable security actions you can take with your connected devices from Make magazine and Kevin shares his thoughts on the new Anki robot. We hit news from ARM, the feds, Control4 and Smarter before answering a listener question about IR in the smart home. Our guest this week is Matt Van Horn, who is the CEO of June. This week June launched a second generation oven that is roughly a third of the price of the original. Van Horn shares how June made that possible, how the company is using data to improve the user experience and why he’s not going into meal delivery kits anytime soon. He also shares a recipe for S’mores. Enjoy the show.
So my wife mentioned that we should replace our toaster oven since it’s super old. I’ve been looking for an excuse to get a June oven and I took this as a sign to re-visit my finances and see if I could figure out a way to get the June Oven. I checked out the website and OMG it’s on sale for $499. So with no questions asked I bought it.
Of course I later find out that Gen-2 literally came out just a few hours before I had pulled the trigger. I didn’t know anything about the special subscription or extra cookware. I’m kinda wishing I had purchased the gourmet sku after listening to this.
Email the compnay and see if you can adjust your order. June is fairly responsive.