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Why should the remote stop functioning just because the company doesn't exist? That's a bunch of BS in my opinion. Remind me to never support anything from thes
by ping_pong 5y ago
Why should the remote stop functioning just because the company doesn't exist? That's a bunch of BS in my opinion. Remind me to never support anything from these founders in the future.
- ohazi 5y agoI agree that it's bullshit, but a boycott is not going to accomplish anything. To many devices work like this (phone home else brick), and too few people care enough to allow this failure mode to influence their behavior. Most people just want the shiny thing.
- ping_pong 5y agoA boycott perfectly accomplishes this. I don't want to purchase devices that arbitrarily shut down. It protects me from spending money on bad devices and from people that create devices and companies with bad practices.
- londons_explore 5y agoSomeone needs to make a "yelp for business owners" where you can review previous businesses all the directors have been involved in, and if they treated customers and suppliers in a decent way. Even a tiny bit of attaching moral standards to individuals in the business will have a big effect - people will leave a company if they see something immoral happening, so as not to hurt their own employability.
- alichapman 5y agoThis sounds like LinkedIn without all the fake positivity
- londons_explore 5y agoDon't care. Responsible business owners will take basic steps to ensure customers of the business are not screwed over when the business folds. That could consist of opensourcing the code, handing the servers over to someone else to run, making the product have a fallback mode where it runs without a server, etc.
- sneak 5y agoI don't buy (or, more accurately, return) any hardware product that doesn't work without someone's remote server. The only exceptions I grant at the moment are T2/M1 macs - they cannot be factory restored without an internet connection to Apple.
- kleiba 5y agoThat's the "smart" in "smart remote control" apparently. Given that it's 2021, I wouldn't be surprised if their tech was that the remote control first connects to their servers to do <something> and you're actually subscribed to a cost plan in order to control your devices.
- syshum 5y agoCloud encoubmered technology, once the "cloud" servers go down, the device stops. This is true for about 90% of all IoT "things" on the market, and dont thing your immune if you buy form a "big brand" like Google (who has already done this to products of theirs see Revolv and Nest both)