3 ms·

These darn things don't need to be "cloud enabled", or even wifi. Please make them Bluetooth, etc only. These dopey use cases of needing to trigger a cleaning

• Syonyk 2y ago
  Right. But the actual use case of being able to sell your home's floorplan and general cleaning schedule/behaviors/etc to advertisers requires cloud functionality, so you need some fig leaf to cover up the requirement... I agree, local only would be great. But that's not aligned with the "sell a product once, sell the data collected forever!" model that most modern consumer tech products operate on.
• amelius 2y ago
  Even if they're Bluetooth-only: AdTech will invent some way to send Ethernet packets over it, sooner than you might expect.
  • accrual 2y ago
    Maybe a step further for privacy: a physical "config mode" toggle on top of the vacuum that enables the BlueTooth radio for a point-to-point connection with the phone app, then toggle it back when you're done. Wouldn't prevent the vacuum from caching data during its work and sending it when in config mode though, I suppose.