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		fivesigma on March 14, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud Let us hope that the IoT buzzword doesn't get abused as much as "cloud" has in the past 4-5 years.

azdle on March 14, 2016 | [–]

As someone who works for a company whose main business is IoT/M2M/Connected Devices/Embedded Stuff on the Internet, it already has been and it almost meaningless.

jaysoncena on March 15, 2016 | [–]

There's already a Cloud over IP! My brain melt down trying to understand what that means.

I hope there will be no "IoT over IP"

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