Announcing Samsung ARTIK Cloud

> We’re really excited to launch Samsung ARTIK Cloud, Samsung’s commercial IoT platform to deliver interoperability between devices and applications. Samsung ARTIK Cloud is an open data exchange platform that provides easy-to-use, open APIs and tools to securely collect, store, and act on any data from any connected device or cloud service.

I try not to be too cynical but this just sounds like balkanization. Since it's an "open data exchange platform," is the protocol really open? Can I implement my own ARTIK backend?

I've wanted something for years where I could administer settings for apps on my devices via a web interface on my desktop computer, wonder if this is a step in that direction?

IoT open data exchange needs to be open source and non-proprietary. I urge everyone to carefully study the AST-based programming-language-neutral nature of web assembly, semantic versioning, and distributed networking technologies such as IPFS and NDN along with module registries like npm. These are the types of systems we need for IoT and more broadly as a basis for systems development and integration.