Sorry, that was poorly written, we'll not be another Vera product, as for one the Almond+ will be easy to use, whereas the Vera is a pain imho, but at the same time, we won't support the multitude of options they have, at least not by ourselves. If this happens in extension with our community, then great, but our goal is to create something new and different in the market where usability is key, as to be honest, in as much as I have a Vera Lite at home, I'm barely using any of it's features, simply due to the fact that it's too complicated to do what should be fairly simple tasks. To be honest, I talked to them about this at CES and they said that they're working on bringing out a major software update that will address some of these issues.
Then again, we don't want to make an overly simplistic product either, as then no-one's going to want to use it and considering I've tested multiple platforms such as Lowe's Iris, the Vera Lite, SmartThings, Revolv etc. I have at least a pretty good idea of what we need to deliver to meet the expectations of most of our customers. I'll freely admit that we won't have everything there on day one and it'll be a work in progress together with our customers to make the Almond+ into a product that will appeal to everyone from beginners to advanced users on the home automation side.
We have no doubt a lot of work ahead of us, but so does our "competitors". Take the Revolv for example, it's not possible to de-associate a sensor, which is a disaster if you want to test something, but isn't planning on making it a permanent part of an installation. SmartThings doesn't detect a wide range of devices I tried with, which is kind of funny, as they're making claims of working with just about anything out there. Now, I'm not going to go and say that we work with every single device under the sun, because we don't, but likewise, we've never made any such claim that I'm aware of at least. What we are doing though, is testing a wide range of sensors and devices to make sure that they'll work with the Almond+ and we'll continue to do this for the life of the product. In fact, one of the things I did at CES was to meet up with sensors and devices makers and ask them if we could do some compatibility testing, to which almost all agreed.
I'm not sure if this was the answer you were looking for, but we do have a pretty good idea of the expectations with regards to the Almond+ and we'll do our best to deliver on this.