The Device Landscape
The year 2008 was a landmark year and not only because of the theatrical release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which introduced the phrase “nuking the fridge” into our vernacular. This was the year that saw the number of Internet-connected devices exceed the number of people using them. This super-connectivity between devices is commonly known as the Internet of Things (IoT), and this book is aimed at an already substantial and fast-growing subset of those things, namely things with web browsers.
The range of web-enabled devices is enormous and getting broader by the day. As I write this, I’m the owner of the following devices that have a web browser: a desktop, a laptop, a tablet, a smartphone, an ...
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