There’s been a spike in the number of hostile articles in the consumer-facing press singling out cloud-augmented consumer electronics in the past few weeks. It threatens IoT adoption in the consumer markets, but it’s something that the industry is going to have to carefully negotiate in the coming years. The most high profile example is that of Nest and its Revolv hub. The company decided to shut down the Revolv smart home hub servers, without offering a discount or trade-in option for consumers to use to transition. Effectively, they were flipping the off-switch, and leaving the customers in the lurch. The story didn’t do Nest’s public image any favors, and this week has seen a continuation on the same theme,…