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In support of your hijacking: no, you're not. I find it annoying. It has the stink of "we've got to do something different but we don't know what...let's mess
by MrZongle2 12y ago
In support of your hijacking: no, you're not. I find it annoying. It has the stink of "we've got to do something different but we don't know what...let's mess with something that isn't broken!"
As abhorrent as I find John Deere's anti-ownership approach, I say let them continue down that road. It will provide another entrepreneur the opportunity to create and sell a more easily maintainable, you-bought-it-so-you-own-it alternative.
God knows the home appliance space needs that kind of alternative.
- jaegerpicker 12y agoRight but the issue with that approach is that the better alternative rarely appears. Your own example of the home appliance shows that.
- coldpie 12y agoAnd in the meantime, everyone who exists now just gets boned. Sorry, everyone who lives in the present instead of some theoretical future!
- pdxgene 12y agoI'm in violent agreement with you here -- the notion of a smart home platform, for example, that allows me to customize it via an API, or, if I choose, by tinkering with its basic software, sounds awesome to me. But I'm a programmer, and a tinkerer. In order for this to be a viable mainstream reality, some enterprising company will need to establish a platform or system of consumer-grade components that bridges the gap between "general population computer literacy" and "ability to tweak one's electronic things". In reality, that may be (for now) an unbridgeable gap. Maybe the only route to digital freedom is deeper digital literacy on the part of the average consumer. But one thing is for sure -- as long as laws like the DMCA are in place, the deck is stacked against evolution towards DIY utopia.