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Comment on The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds

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.

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Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

these bed owners are asking the same thing" why the fuck does a bed NEED to be connected to the internet?

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.

I would have assumed it allows a direct connection between the controller and your phone.

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.

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- XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Good for you, I’m glad you know so many things. Your knowledge is above average.
  
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