alt Hacker NewsThat would be ideal, but this sort of changes the topic from reliability to interoperability.
I’m pretty sure this is merely temporary state of things, as IoT is still a novelty and most people are unaware about new failure modes.
I hope - as the realization becomes common - the demand for devices that will keep working until they mechanically break is going to eventually become a marketing point.
I suppose we can hope, but I don't see the trend going that way. Without some kind of regulatory support, there's not much incentive for anyone to pursue that. It will be more profitable to produce tons of crap that breaks quickly so that people have to buy another one.