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> Fuck Peloton. Fuck Flywheel. Fuck all the proprietary IoT companies. And not just in the IoT field. Pretty much every company that could use their closed sof
by squarefoot 6y ago
> Fuck Peloton. Fuck Flywheel. Fuck all the proprietary IoT companies.
And not just in the IoT field. Pretty much every company that could use their closed software/firmware/designs plus lawyers to enforce their right to render a product useless or obsolete, or simply becoming the only authorized to repair it then refuse the repair, so the user must buy a newer one, will eventually do that if allowed by the law.
John Deere has been really hostile to their customers, for example.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xykkkd/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xykkkd/why-american-farme...
- notimetorelax 6y agoThe legislation will probably originate somewhere there. At some point world should realize that software sales are not different from hardware sales.
- fiftyacorn 6y agoJohn deere only made sense to me when I found out bill gates as it's largest shareholder
- encom 6y agoDon't forget Apple. They absolutely hate customers servicing the hardware they bought and paid for, and they fight it with both technology and lawyers. Remember that awesome time when Apple disabled phones, because they had a 3rd party home button installed? Absolute scumbags.
- nkristoffersen 6y agoI mean, it sure seems like a scumbag move, until you understand the full reasoning behind enforcing encrypted keys for each piece of security hardware. Which I believe was to close a security loophole. To my memory the bricking of phones was a bug related to not handling the non-matching key condition correctly. But I believe they fixed that bug quickly?