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Connected homes will take longer to materialize than expected. The fanfare has gone on for years. Analysts have repeatedly predi
Connected homes will take longer to materialize than expected. The fanfare has gone on for years. Analysts have repeatedly predi
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2019-11-20
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Connected homes will take longer to materialize than expected. The fanfare has gone on for years. Analysts have repeatedly predicted that the "internet of things" could transform the lives of individuals as dramatically as the spread of the mobile internet. Providers have focused on the home, touting products such as coffee pots that turn on when the alarm clock rings. But so far consumers have been largely resistant to making their homes "smart".
Too few consumers are convinced that the internet has a role to play in every corner of their lives. A survey conducted in Britain by a consulting firm, found that 72% of people have no plans to adopt smart-home technology in the next two to five years and that they are unwilling to pay for it. Last year consumers globally spent around $60 billion on hardware and services for the smart home, a fraction of the total outlay on domestic gadgets. That’s not for want of trying by tech firms, which have poured cash into their efforts to connect everyday objects to the internet. There are several reasons for muted enthusiasm. A lot of smart devices for the home, remain "fun but not essential", says Adam Segar of Canary. Many smart gadgets are still too expensive. One of Samsung’ s smart fridges sells for a cool $5,000. The technology is not perfect yet, either.
Perhaps the biggest surprise is that Amazon, which failed miserably in its ambition to develop a smartphone, is showing the way. Amazon Echo shares information about the weather and sports scores, plays music and turns lights on and off. The device, which costs around $180, is not yet a big seller. Yet the Echo is the talk of Silicon Valley. An interface that relies on voice commands could overcome one of the drawbacks of the piecemeal approach to the smart home, by becoming the standard integrator of all the other bits of smart kit.
If the tech giants retain their ambition to sit at the centre of the smart home, uncertainty prevails over where the profits lie."It remains unclear what the economic model for the smart home will be," says Andy Hobsbawm of Evrythng, an internet-of-things platform.
Based on the whole passage, we can infer that the future development of smart devices in home will be______.
选项
A、unclear
B、disappointed
C、prevalent
D、unpromising
答案
A
解析
细节题。根据题干关键词可知,本题考查智能家居产品的发展前景。通过首段第一句话Connected homes will take longer to materialize than expected(真正实现互联家庭仍是长路漫漫)和最后一段安迪-霍布斯鲍姆所评述的话,即未来智能家居行业经济模式如何尚不明确可知,智能家居产品前景尚不明确。B项“使人失望”、C项“普遍的”和D项“前途无望的”均与题意不符,因此排除,故本题选A。
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