🚨🚨 CALLING ALL SMART HOME NERDS! 🚨🚨 You KNOW the drill: every time you blink, another smart home company bites the dust. 💀💡 It's like them home automation peeps are playing a real-life game of Musical Chairs but, surprise! 🪑 NO CHAIRS LEFT! 🤖💤 This week on The Vergecast, we’ve got legendary tech whisperer Jennifer “The Light Queen” Pattison Tuohy chatting it up with Ken “The Rebirth of Insteon” Fairbanks. Yep, my dude literally bought the ship after it sunk faster than the Titanic with a fleet of IoT devices. 🚢💔 But why's these smart home companies acting like they just got hit with a "Tragic Meme" card?! 🤦‍♂️ Are we seriously gonna let our fancy smart bulbs fade away like my hopes for a world without subscription models? 💰📅 “Customer loyalty is like a good Wi-Fi signal,” Ken said, “you gotta work to maintain it or your users will go to the neighbors with the better connection.” 😂 No cap! 🔥 Here’s the hot take: if these techs keep flopping like TikTok dances, I can see a future where our homes are controlled by nothing but incandescent bulbs and good ol’ switches. It's the rise of the RETRO home! 🕹️💡🔥 So, which way is your smart home going? Into the void or into the 21st century? 🤔💭 #SmartHomeApocalypse