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Has there been any suggestion as to what happens when the company behind this inevitably goes bankrupt (all companies will eventually fail) or is "acquired" and
by g_p 5y ago
Has there been any suggestion as to what happens when the company behind this inevitably goes bankrupt (all companies will eventually fail) or is "acquired" and scuttled? Or they cease to desire to provide the API backend for the mobile app?
It strikes me safety critical equipment is the one time when we don't want any kind of dependency on an external hosted service.
As it stands right now, it seems like even a fully paid-up, owned outright version could cease to function if they lost control of their domain name?
Am I correct in my understanding this product is tied to your phone to "call home" and validate its state? If so, doesn't that mean it's unusable without your phone being working, charged, non-stolen and non-broken? And the same for their servers. So you could in theory go on a journey protected, stop for a break, and find you can't continue your journey protected as you're out of signal, or something has broken?
This feels like a good opportunity for a government to take a stance on safety products. At the very least they'll reduce the amount of eWaste when these stop working before the end of their useful life.