It has taken EchoStar 18-months to roll out its new Sage smart home platform since it was demoed at IBC 2014, and as far as we can see not much has changed – but it reopens the question of who does it better; technology companies or pay TV operators? When we met with EchoStar at IBC 2014, RIoT said it looked like a very simple system to operate; just the sort of thing that could be offered as a value-add product to service customers. Although it’s unclear for now if anything Drastic was changed during this long 18-month incubation, EchoStar told us at the time that Sage would launch in the first half of 2015 – so better late than…