What makes you say that? A typical app that exposes this data for the user will demand access to accelerometer and the internet (for ads). It logically does not follow that they'd have access to any other data unless the user gave them such access.

That's an obvious solution until you try to call someone, though I fondly remember my highschool days of prank dialling random numbers and having conversation with some interesting characters.

Or we could just stop raising a country of sexually reclusive prudes who are ashamed of their own body and freak out at the through of seeing nipple.

Funny side anecdote: I was in Bad Hofgastein in Austria skiing and after a long day on the slopes I went down to the wellness centre for an evening of sauna. There was a British woman shouting at the receptionist that it is absolutely unacceptable that she was kicked out for wearing swimmers in the sauna area. There were a lot of naked men and women standing around quite bemused.

In a true democracy the crimes of the government are the crimes of the people. It's hard to sit by and say how innocent the people were in all this while they lined up to claim their welfare, even if welfare is in the form of lower tax rates than other EU countries enact.

There you go with the generalising and cherry picking again. You can't help yourself can you?

Also my devices are hard-wired for reasons that have nothing to do with their smarts. They are hard wired because it is cheaper to make them hardwired in a service where power is available.

Ahhh rightio, Carry on then, it was quite a satisfying read :-)

Thankyou for cherrypicking a result without any understanding.

I invite you to power-down an AVR some time and see exactly what they are capable of when drawing your mythical 1uA. Here's a hint, you can't get that power usage using a normal system clock, in fact you can't get that usage with the clock running at all, or anything else, in fact there's very few things that can wake and AVR when it's using that little power, not even the watchdog. An Internet of useless Paperweights is what you're going to have.

While you cherry pick your chips without actually figuring out if they'll do something practical I'll wait for someone to write a statement of requirements for their device first. That may show things like the only 3 IoT devices in my house being hard wired and thus no one could care less if they use 1uA or 320000 times more power.

But feel free to keep generalising.

That's the typically over generalized anti-Google crap we've come to expect.

Just like Chromium and Android varieties don't communicate with Google there's no reason to expect that every device like this will either.

Yes it's likely that many such devices will, but I'll reserve freaking out for facts and data rather than anti-corporate speculation.

I thought your country had a no child left behind policy. Guess I was wrong.

Yep, interestingly the Raspberry PI fits a Dual core 32bit ARM and 512MB of RAM on the same surface area as an 8bit AVR or PIC. Power wise it all depends on the devices ability to enter low power states.

Neither of the features you mention are trade-offs that we need to have. Not at the scale we're talking about, and not with today's technology.

Not sure if I should write "no kidding", or simply go with the traditional "whoosh".

It's like rain on a wedding day.

What you need depends on the application, what you have depends on you meeting your design criteria.

32MB memory chips cost $5 in quantities of 1. If you have an IoT application that needs a full Android OS on it for some reason then the memory won't break the bank.

You answered your own question in the example. You want networking you either need to implement a network stack or offload that stack to another component in which case you're just cheating by moving code around and ultimately still using the same amount of resources.

Though I admit that 32MB sounds high for what we're talking about, I'll happily callout anyone who compares it to programming a simple PIC micro and thinking they are badass.

You jest but I'll bite. Google most definitely care about your privacy. In the number of companies willing to share your information with 3rd parties Google is right at the bottom of the list for one simple reason, control. There are a lot of companies out there that share the data they collect. Google keeps the data and provides an API to let someone target your anonymised data set.

Google is the number 1 offender for collecting my private data.
Google is also the number 1 company I trust not to simply sell it or share it.