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“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by flop_leash_973@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 1 points 4 months ago

I’ve probably been unlucky with the ones sold at my nearest electronics store.