They don’t even know what a server is.
Comment on The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The fact that the pods cannot be controlled when you don’t have the internet is diabolical. I wish I knew this before purchasing.
Cloud service purchaser upset that purchase requires cloud for service to work.
Why do people never consider that anything that requires a server will likely end up in this position when the company decides it isn’t worth it to keep the servers running (or they just go out of business)?
dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Cloud service purchaser doesn’t realize the system is ONLY a cloud service. Much like the commenters here, these bed owners are asking the same thing" why the fuck does a bed NEED to be connected to the internet?
I would have assumed it allows a direct connection between the controller and your phone. While I fucking hate the need for a wireless device to control my sleep Number (paid for a Bluetooth remote though), none of us can ignore the fact the gen pop loves having apps for the most basic of functions.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 week ago
To harvest your data, obviously. Which is also why they don’t allow local connectivity: you might stop them from being able to data mine you.
Lmao, good one.
Just about any Internet of Shit device I’ve ever worked on, ‘cloud connected’ means ‘cloud first/only’. If your device says it uses the cloud and doesn’t SPECIFICALLY say you have offline access, you don’t.
This is why my smart shit is zigbee/zwave, you can’t cut me off if you can’t leave my network.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Good for you, I’m glad you know so many things. Your knowledge is above average.