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.
21 points
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.
4 points
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.
1 point
