> Had Haier reached out and asked the dev to optimise their HTTP calls, or perhaps adviced him on what kind of call pattern their cloud servers were optimised f

> Had Haier reached out and asked the dev to optimise their HTTP calls, or perhaps adviced him on what kind of call pattern their cloud servers were optimised for so that costs could be kept low, Haier wouldn't have received all this bad press. Or, god forbid, contributed to the open source code repository in a way beneficial to all.