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Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I get no longer supporting products, but bricking them?

I think what's happening in the background here is these "Internet of Trash" devices hook to cloud infrastructure for which the business no longer wants to pay.

If they were interested in actually building something useful, they would open up their API layers and add a way to link them to different services. But since they don't give a fuck about you as a customer, they plan poorly as a business, and they have no ability to produce well-engineered software, instead they code everything so that it is hopelessly coupled (probably through hard-coded things up to and including certificates) with specific garbage they made, make it impossible to move to anything else, and then brick your shit.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Fine then it's easy everything has to have a local API. One of the reasons I got an ecobee thermostat is the local control through homekit.