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if you want a vision of the future, winston, imagine watching a unskippable ad before your smartlock allows you into your house... forever

xnorswap 1y ago
But you'll have the "freedom" to "choose" to pay a premium to get an ad-free version of the lock.
- thrill 1y ago
  If you pay it in monthly installments then your social^h^h^h^h^h^h credit score will be impacted.
- happymellon 1y ago
  *Premium version may also contain ads.
BitwiseFool 1y ago
You can simply disable these by paying for the monthly SmartHome One™ Plus subscription.
- JadeNB 1y ago
  Oh, sorry, due to agreements with providers, SmartHome One™ Plus still requires a limited number of curated ads in certain markets.
  - qwerpy 1y ago
    Apple News and the Stocks app do exactly this. It's happy to clutter up your news feed with subscriber-only articles, despite knowing that you don't have a subscription. Predictably there's no option to not show subscriber-only articles. So there was a workaround: you can block individual news providers, so you can block all of the subscriber-only ones. But now when you block one, it says "If you block XYZ, News will stop showing stories from this channel, except when selected by the Apple News editors". Ridiculous. If I go to the trouble of blocking a site, that means I don't want to see anything from them, ever.
kps 1y ago
The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I'll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don't have to pay you.” “I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.” … he found the contract. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip. “You discover I'm right,” the door said. It sounded smug. From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door. — Ubik, Philip K Dick, 1969 Apple read Ubik and took the lesson to build everything with proprietary screw heads.
cosmicgadget 1y ago
Can I just get a boot to the face instead?

xnorswap 1y ago

But you'll have the "freedom" to "choose" to pay a premium to get an ad-free version of the lock.

thrill 1y ago
If you pay it in monthly installments then your social^h^h^h^h^h^h credit score will be impacted.
happymellon 1y ago
*Premium version may also contain ads.

BitwiseFool 1y ago

You can simply disable these by paying for the monthly SmartHome One™ Plus subscription.

JadeNB 1y ago
Oh, sorry, due to agreements with providers, SmartHome One™ Plus still requires a limited number of curated ads in certain markets.
- qwerpy 1y ago
  Apple News and the Stocks app do exactly this. It's happy to clutter up your news feed with subscriber-only articles, despite knowing that you don't have a subscription. Predictably there's no option to not show subscriber-only articles. So there was a workaround: you can block individual news providers, so you can block all of the subscriber-only ones. But now when you block one, it says "If you block XYZ, News will stop showing stories from this channel, except when selected by the Apple News editors". Ridiculous. If I go to the trouble of blocking a site, that means I don't want to see anything from them, ever.

kps 1y ago

The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I'll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don't have to pay you.” “I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.” … he found the contract. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip. “You discover I'm right,” the door said. It sounded smug. From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door. — Ubik, Philip K Dick, 1969 Apple read Ubik and took the lesson to build everything with proprietary screw heads.

cosmicgadget 1y ago

Can I just get a boot to the face instead?