Why would Eric Smith state this?Especially when considering who his audience is. Do you think he was just offering his unfounded personal opinion? Or do you think he was regurgiting sentiments mouthed by entities YFI has been engaged with since before, and after the POC? The latter would be the most professional assumption.
Anyway, it may prove prudent to give some serious consideration as to what is actually being said. Unfortunately leo does not possess the necessary qualifications to make a meaningful comment on this otherwise we would have heard from him immediately.
Eric stated:
Consumers are tired of the rip-and-replace mentality and are not interested in replacing every legacy device in their home to adapt to newer Wi-Fi standards which hold little or no value to the existing device. Faced with increased customer care costs, Service Providers with massive installed bases are increasingly wary of silicon vendors’ promises of massive performance gains. Historically, gains have failed to materialize in the average home or enterprise due to contention, interference, and the capabilities of the installed base of devices.”