I really dislike this trend... My parents own a robotic vacuume cleaner, which also requires you to login to companies servers before you can unlock all the fun

I really dislike this trend... My parents own a robotic vacuume cleaner, which also requires you to login to companies servers before you can unlock all the functionality. I'm of the opinion that a device should be as independent as possible. Maybe to achieve special functionality you can implement a remote but that too should work as independently as possible. Anything more then this is just a sin, anti-consumer behaviour. There is absolutely no reason why must login to a server that's on the other side of the planet just to tell the vacuume cleaner to clean only a part of my room... The problem is that the majority of people don't care and they'll just buy a new device/robot cleaner once the company turns their servers off, because let's face it we're still very fast away from a law that would force companies to open source their stuff before they shutdown everything for good. This kind of behaviour is just making the e-waste problem worse...