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Nokia will disable the key feature of its scale
- rkwasny 9y agoWhat's your take on this? I basically bought a product and now the software update is going to remove some key functionality.
- skygazer 9y agoedit: sorry, this is not directly responsive. I intended to post at the top level. I own this scale, and am bummed. I finally figured out how to reliably (as in, repeatably) get it to work, by first letting it measure my weight, and then bracing myself against the wall to prevent minute movements that tripped it up. Without doing this, and instead treating it like a normal scale, it had a poor track record of successfully making the measurement. They claim they were not prompted by the FDA, but made an internal decision based on the possibility the feature would run afoul of regulation in certain unnamed jurisdictions. I'm trying to decide the odds that they're being straight forward, or covering for inaccuracy of the device that they've decided will be a liability. I wonder that, because I'm curious whether it's worth the effort to prevent the scale from receiving the destructive update.
- samsolomon 9y agoApparently, regulation seems to be the reason the feature is being discontinued. I would have preferred they renamed the feature than removed it wholesale. Perhaps, this is a warning sign about the life expectancy of cloud-based devices. For example, I cannot imagine buying a washing machine or refrigerator connected to the internet.