Smart homes, Internet of Things - people have been talking about that for a long time, but don't you think that we're still far away from the truly smart homes? I think the main reason why we're not even close is that the race started from the wrong point. Let me explain what I mean by the 'wrong' point. Take a look at the main players that push this idea of smart homes to us, potential customers: Amazon, Google and now Facebook. There are no doubts that all of these companies are great in their core business. Amazon has a very diversified business model - e-commerce, TV streaming, their brilliant AWS and they're going to battle for the delivery market with Fedex and UPS. Moreover, Amazon named the most valuable brand in the world. Alexa's integration with IFTT makes it cool to order something with the voice. However cool doesn't mean useful.Google has a great search engine and they know literally everything about each Internet user in the world. They're number 1 search engine, now they have their phones - at least they're trying to improve their value preposition. Google's efforts on making the smart homes closer to reality is brilliant - their most recent presentation where they showed the Google Home to the public was really intriguing. However the presentation itself wasn't even close to Apple's ones. Check this video if you missed this Google Home piece:Now Facebook - Mark impressed everybody this week with his Jarvis. Actually his video made me think of how far we are from the real smart homes. And the reason for that is straight forward - you need to first connect all your devices at home within one network. Technically, all your devices should speak the same language before you can do something with them remotely through any device. And here we come to this 'wrong' point - smart homes should be made by those who manufacture the hardware for home appliances. And yes, they've already started doing this long ago - for example check this Meet Hue by Phillips - smart LED lightning for your home. I consider this as the very first step to the smart homes for everybody. Internet of Things market is still very small, while the idea of smart things connected to the internet has been flying in the air for quite a long time. This market may reach $1.6B by 2021 according to different analysts:Compare these numbers to $20.41B programmatic advertising market, e-learning market reached $100B+ size in 2015 - and that's just a few examples of businesses that have started not so long ago. If any of these three companies (Amazon, Google or Facebook) wants to become a leader in smart homes market, they need to start manufacturing toasters, refrigerators, microwaves or, at least, start with lamps. Personally I'm impressed by Zuck's - but at the same time I understand how much time he spent on making this live. Jarvis shows ordinary customers how rapidly this market should develop to make such things available. I think that we'll see Amazon, Facebook or Google partnering with home appliances manufacturers next year, otherwise, such companies as Phillips slowly but steadily will either get the largest market share soon or force tech giants to partner with them on favorable terms. Smart homes market went the wrong direction, need to get back to the right path.