> It's the business models of hardware, software, and services which are killing us. To the point of creating actively shitty products and business practices.

> It's the business models of hardware, software, and services which are killing us. To the point of creating actively shitty products and business practices. Do you know how to keep your stuff from being easily cloned by Chinese? You make it 'cloudy' by baking all your features in a closed and proprietary API on your premises. That's great for the company as it provides significant leverage against external competitors AND naughty customers. Bans can be instilled by "block user and hardware_id". Of course, when that API goes away, so does utilizing any of that hardware. And what does that mean? Your $X00 device is now worthy of a doorstop or a space-filling-device in the trash.