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Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 48 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I will (and have been) doing my absolute to avoid buying any kind of physical device that requires an app to function

Same. It’s becoming more difficult every day.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    And that's so sad. There are a lot of (mainly Elderly people) who don't even have a smartphone who now often can't use the most basic stuff necessary because it needs an app.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    A lot of this stuff is only useful if you have money, anyway. And poverty rates among the elderly have been climbing since the Housing Crash of '08

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I've said this before, I'm going to say it again: people with money spend it to save time.

    Managing 2FA, software updates, account signin, device pairing, billing, privacy policy updates, cookie notices.... This shit does not save people time. It does the complete opposite.

    These products are not built for consumers. These products are purely anticompetitive schemes, propping up crappy business models, trying to cash in on the data harvesting gold rush.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I've been screaming this at the top of my lungs for 20 years, and oh my god the "I told you so"'s I get to say now feel SO good.

    i mean, I don't have any friends anymore, so mostly im just calling up people who hate me now and saying "I told you so", but, like I DID, so, worth.

    I mean, not, like, 'worth' in the sense that anything in my life works or wasn't torn apart by my adherence to materialism and avoidance of dark patterns, but, like, you know, feels good for a few minutes when they haven't changed their number.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    These products are not built for consumers.

    they're often built for investors. they are feasible enough products that some people will even buy them, so you get investors. then, the thing is always just "one more issue we need to fix" away from "mass adoption", "for real this time"... to keep milking the investors as long as possible.

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