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It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.
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Remember folks: Any smart device you have that requires an internet connection or app is e-waste waiting to happen at the company’s whim.
So if you own pair of these shoes you will no longer be able to use the features on said shoes?
I own a pair. You do lose some functionality without the app. The ability to change the light colors, set and recall presets.
You can still tighten them without the app. And I think you can set one preset as well (not sure tbh)
They announced the sunsetting of the app like 2 months ago but the media is capitalizing on the announcement now for some reason. It sucks but it’s not the end of the world not having the app.
I mean, there are some devices that fundamentally have to be online to be useful. You’re not losing anything there.
A Roku stick requires the Roku streaming service to be functioning to be useful. If there wasn’t a service with streaming media, the stick would have nothing to stream.
The problem is when you have a device that doesn’t have that fundamental requirement but is then unnecessarily tied to an online service. Home automation requiring Internet connectivity, for example, when virtually no home automation actually requires access to any online services, or converting non-live-service video games to live-service video games.
A Roku stick requires the Roku streaming service to be functioning to be useful. If there wasn’t a service with streaming media, the stick would have nothing to stream.
In cases like this; it’s still only artificially dependant on Rokus services.
The hardware is perfectly capable of streaming from any number of services, including entirely self-hosted solutions like Emby/Jellyfin/Plex; yet the device can be remotely bricked just by nolonger providing Rokus services to it.
Anything requiring a smartphone app to use should be an instant non-starter for everyone.
Losing the app means that people can’t change the color of the light on the shoe. You can still do all the other shit manually.
That said, I feel like companies should be required to open source shit like this once they drop support for it. Otherwise stuff like this adds to the mountains of e-waste poisoning the planet.
Companies really should just opensource their apps at this point, or at the very least publish their protocols.
Can’t see how dropping apps and bricking devices benefits anyone.
We need self tightening AI nuts and bolts. We could sell them to Boeing or something idk.
I believe those are called stem bolts
Good luck trying to get any without yamok sauce.
why does it need an app? Why not just have a button on the shoe that pulls the laces into their chambers and forget about connecting it to your phone?
Because once their app is installed on your phone, they can send you push notification ads for their next great shoes.
It could have a button.
But a button wouldnt give them all the permissions on your phone to harvest your data for sale and exploitation.
Just don’t do it
Just screw it
