Sure, you can open your front door. Just use a crowbar. Old-school hardware solution ftw! But yeah, one of the biggest problems - perhaps the biggest problem -

Sure, you can open your front door. Just use a crowbar. Old-school hardware solution ftw! But yeah, one of the biggest problems - perhaps the biggest problem - that the Internet of Things faces is devices growing obsolete in short order. Connector conspiracies via proprietary APIs is just a subset of that broader issue. I wouldn't want a chip-only door lock for the same reason I wouldn't want a chip in my body.