For many people, the extra convenience isn’t worth the price tag, since many of these features make an appliance more expensive. Nor are the appliances perfect yet; consumers want to wait until the glitches are worked out and till perceived-value is being added. In addition, there’s an assumption that people may want to be able to connect all of their appliances to a central automated assistant, but there isn’t yet an industry-standard protocol as companies battle for the supremacy of their devices.