The Internet Of Things Is A Developer Nightmare … And Opportunity

Stacey Higginbotham | GigaOM | February 11, 2014

Summary: Watches, garages and data privacy are all topics of discussion in this weeks podcast featuring The Pebble Steel, a connected garage door opener and Sam Ramji of Apigee discussing business models for the internet of things.

This week’s podcast brings together Kevin Tofel’s new Pebble Steel purchase, my connected garage door and a deep discussion about data privacy in the connected world with this week’s guest Sam Ramji, the VP of strategy at Apigee. Kevin and I kick it off with Kevin discussing his $249 Pebble Steel and the newly launched Pebble app store.

One of the challenges he’s discovered is that apps designed for the Pebble are so far pretty early in their UI, and aren’t his favorite way to build apps for the watch. Instead he turns to IFTTT. [...]