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Let me guess: I need to pair it with my phone, create an account, accept a ridiculous EULA that forfeits my right to participate in a class action suit, and upd
by jchw 4y ago
Let me guess: I need to pair it with my phone, create an account, accept a ridiculous EULA that forfeits my right to participate in a class action suit, and update the firmware to add a new mapping feature that tracks my whereabouts (as a feature of course, with a heat map or whatever.)
I feel like these days, when I see a flashy new product, I need to be immediately informed that it doesn't require a smartphone or cloud app. I don't want to be hostage to my fucking shoes because Oracle acquired the company that runs the server for them.
- bilsbie 4y agoRemember the days we used to get excited about new technology?
- yokoprime 4y agoThis looks very much like roller skates with a ratchet in the back wheels. Not sure it’s new as such
- throwaway4aday 4y agoPlease make the effort to look into it before you post a deriding comment. There's a lot more to them than that and they are actually a very interesting piece of engineering both in hardware and software.
- freeone3000 4y agoBack when it made my life better instead of worse.
- mmaunder 4y agoIt’s worse. They’ll try to get recurring revenue from what should be a one-off expense for the customer. You’ll be offered personalized coaching. They’ll partner with one of those dieting companies that wants to replace your groceries. God help you if you enable alerts because the app to control the device will hound you endlessly until you sign up.
- MattDemers 4y agoThis seems ripe for replaceable bearings or some kind of maintenance thing.
- asdff 4y agoMaybe the maintenance will amount to you mailing it to them to throw away and them mailing you a brand new product
- FatActor 4y ago> You’ll be offered personalized coaching. Thank you for reading this so that I don't have to. Coaching for walking is an Onion article I swear.
- xwkd 4y agoIs this speculation? The way that this and the parent comment read, it sounds like you have information that I’m not finding on the website.
- jstummbillig 4y agoHey, we are all just getting older and grumpier by the second
- porphyra 4y agoImagine if you spent a ton of time and effort to launch a product and people on Hacker News start attacking it brutally based on things that aren't even true.
- gitfan86 4y agoAt this point I wouldn't be surprised if it is a viral marketing strategy.
- jchw 4y agoWhat a sad sob story. It's so unfortunate for founders that they have to deal with such things as skepticism and preconceived notions. How about this: if you care about my demographic of people, I'm happy to be appeased to in the form of commitments to have offline-only functionality for the hardware I'm paying for. But if you advertise the 1 millionth tech product and expect me to not assume it is like the 999,999 previous ones out of good faith alone, sorry, I'm fresh out of miniature violins. I don't really want to be this flippant, but do you know how burned I am by this at this point? I've started returning things based on not being able to use them without an account. Just scroll through Google Home integrations some time and take a look at the vast mountains of internet of shit devices. Sometimes, it's proudly advertised that it needs a smartphone. Other times, you'd be hard pressed to know it even supports it, less requires it. Tooth brushes, bathroom scales, literally anything a Bluetooth radio will fit in. If you want to be mad at anyone, don't get mad at me. Get mad at Juicero and all of the other folks dropping turds in the proverbial punchbowl. I am not sorry.
- mhuffman 4y agoMom! I need $50 my rollerskate shoes subscription expired! Now I can't walk anywhere fast!
- nimbius 4y agoits been my experience that aliexpress usually offers a similar product with about 90% of the functionality and often times more features, with no rent-seeking required. so ill wait for my mega-walker pro's to come out instead i guess.
- idiotsecant 4y agoThe exciting part is that 82% of the mega-walker pro's will work great and the rest of them well self-immolate and burn down your garage randomly. Life is an adventure!
- liendolucas 4y agoThat's the future of SaaS (Shoes as a Service).
- Wojtkie 4y agoThere's nothing on their website saying there's an app or you need to pair it with a phone. It seems to be all contained within the housing.
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