IoT & Connected Devices — Year in Review

Every January I publish a connected-devices forecast. The first half scores last year's predictions against what actually happened in the market — gadget by gadget, protocol by protocol. The second half lays down this year's bets.

Read it forward, you'll see the industry mature from "smart watches will be a thing" to "AR glasses are the new phone." Read it backward, you'll see the patterns: protocol fragmentation, the long failure curve of category-creator hardware, and how voice assistants went from sci-fi to ambient in three years.