This is one of the many reasons why I NEVER buy any type of HW that requires a cloud account to even function. There is no sales pitch or value proposition so

This is one of the many reasons why I NEVER buy any type of HW that requires a cloud account to even function. There is no sales pitch or value proposition so good that it can overcome this downside of Cloud/IoT in practice. I was looking at a weather station recently that used some pretty innovative sensor hardware but then it only works with a cloud account. Literally if you want the data on your phone, you have connect the station to your internet connection, let it upload the data to the cloud, and then have your smartphone download it again. A thousand-mile trip for a 10 foot distance. F___ that noise! When you live in an area with spotty internet service, this is utterly Epic Fail. So it was an automatic no-go. No sale on that fine weather station. Hope you go broke!! Instead I'm building a system from scratch with professional grade components that use 4-20 mA wire links that I'm connecting to an RPi. The cost for the components is definitely higher but they are the same as what the NWS uses. And I can chose whether to upload or share any of the data. And I will have access to MY DATA for as long as everything powers up and operates. F___ companies that require cloud access to your own data F___ engineers who design such abortions