It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.

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    4 months ago

    The problem is that there are usually no other alternatives, or at least not any easily accessible. Heck, these days even routers require app activation for no reason other than to be shitty.

    There should be a law against this. All hardware requiring an app should also have an open API.

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      4 months ago

      Heck, these days even routers require app activation for no reason other than to be shitty

      There are more often than not alternatives that exist that don’t have this requirement.