The big three duke it out! Which company is best positioned to become the owner of the Internet of Things in the consumer market? Which will win in our first ever Farstuff Battle of the IoT Giants?

Stuff we talk about

* Operating Systems

* Gadgetry

* Customer Reach

* Our 3 C’s: Connect, Communicate, Compute

* Android isn’t open source, it’s faux-pen source

* Apple is a consumer electronics company, Google is a technology company

* Web services for IoT devices

* “Being the store” vs. “being the doormat”

* “Apple has my credit card, so we’re in a relationship that way”

* Hybrid (local+cloud) computing

The ridiculously arbitrary results

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Contender,Tech/OS,Gadget Portfolio,Customer Reach,Services,Total

Apple,10,15,20,10,55

Google,15,7,10,25,57

Samsung,1,20,3,0,24

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