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Of course there's a fucking app.
What's your problem with the app? It sounds like a legit reason for one. Kinda dumb to just condemn apps regardless of context.
Usually the issue with app dependent products, is that it rely on a fucking cloud connection. That imply that if the cloud service goes down or the company collapse,
yourtheir product become unusable. Yet all corps continue to do it as it is super handy to track their pigeon users. Data can then be sold or used to plot growth curves that gives their CEO an erection.Also it probably requires you to have a google or apple account.
Well that's a whole load of assumptions based on absolutely nothing...
First example in mind: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-wont-connect-my-dishwasher-your-stupid-cloud
And a 2nd one: https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/your-washing-machine-could-be-sending-37-gb-of-data-a-day
My point being, the article lists perfectly good reasons for the app to exist, but you've made assumptions about it based solely on absolutely no data. What's the point of linking an article about an unrelated app and company?
Also, as I recall, that 2nd case about the washing machine turned out to be faulty measurements on the router side.
The app doesn’t have to exist. Calibration can happen via other means.
You're zeroing in on this one app's supposed utility, missing the broader, well-documented pattern of issues with app-dependent, cloud-connected devices. The fundamental problem isn't this specific app, but the systemic risks: data harvesting, planned obsolescence when servers shut down, and companies shifting terms post-purchase. Dismissing valid comparisons because the product category differs is a smokescreen. The concern isn't an assumption based on nothing; it's based on a consistent history of consumer-unfriendly practices across the IoT landscape.
Skepticism isn't an "assumption based on nothing"; it's pattern recognition.
Nice list!
Is there any indication in the article that this is even cloud dependent?
You asked why people are pissed off by apps, here is some reasons. I honestly couldn't care less for that toy belt.
Calibration needs is not an excuse to give up on privacy.
Could be done with a button
How would a button give you instructions and feedback...?
Instructions: paper
Feedback: green light, yellow light, red light.
too analog for those gen-z and younger folks...
Only because the older folks keep pushing for apps and such by setting the example. If an analog option isn't even discussed, the younger generation definitely won't know how much simpler certain processes can be.
A single calibration button?
It's not reducing the load on the knees at all.
Yeah, unless it does that then i dont want it.
After my back, my knees are the most fucked, followed closely by my shoulders and then hands.
Unless these things can take all or most off the strain off of my broken bits....not fucking interested.
I was really hoping it would help with this since I have a disability that affects the joints in legs and my knees hurt the most from that. So this isn’t really anything too interesting, but still kinda neat.
I wasted my time reading an ad disguised as an article
You lost me with "next level AI". Pass.
Back when I was ready to graduate college and looking for jobs, I was hoping to get a job with an exoskeleton development company. I really wanted to create Aliens loaders and shit like this. I settled for a job launching rockets.