“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers
arstechnica.com
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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Companies really should just opensource their apps at this point, or at the very least publish their protocols.
Can't see how dropping apps and bricking devices benefits anyone.
A point could be made that it hurts the planet and they should be held responsible for their shenanigans.
As with that spotify car thing.
Make a law that says, if you don't keep supporting it you have to open source it. It's just fair.
Yes, not gonna happen. You know how many new devices get sold simply because old ones are no longer getting updates/software support? It's planned obsolescence. No modern country would pass a law like that.
Absolutely 100% unironically: Not with that attitude.
Not sure which country you're from, but I've basically lost the any hope I can influence any policy in my country with ANY attitude. I hope I'm wrong about other countries.
Look up "right to repair" laws. There are efforts all across the world to get them passed, and many of them have been successful. This is absolutely a thing that you can in fact make a difference on.
Agreed. Companies should be required by law to release source code, build guides, documentation and service architecture for services or apps that are required by hardware they sold.
While there are bigger fish to fry at the moment, socially speaking, the problem is only going to get worse if legislators don’t step in.
This should be a part of all right to repair legislation.
But then you'd see it wasn't secure in the slightest, and you could untie somebody's laces when they walk past you.
Source code escrow is a thing, too. I've only seen it in the context of (as I understood it) protection against going out of business, but perhaps it could apply to discontinued products, as well?