Comment on Sounds like Haier is opening the door!

• Lifebandit666@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The general population is very much influenced by the Home Assistant community since the Home Assistant Community is made up of people who are heavily into technology. My parents will run purchases in the tech world past me, as will many of my work colleagues and friends.

  The general population are very interested in what we do, even if they do not do it themselves. I mentioned to a tech-phobic friend that I have sensors in my bath that notify me when my bath is run and he takes the piss out of me to my face then talks about how amazing such a thing is behind my back, I know because it happened yesterday. Who do you think he’s gonna talk to when he buys his next expensive appliance?

  Don’t talk our influence down, we have an influence even if you can’t see it.

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  • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re showing your bias as someone who’s knowledgeable about technology. It’s not uncommon for people with an interest in something to assume that knowledge or interest is universal. It’s not.

    The average consumer has absolutely no idea how technology works, and they have no interest in knowing. They’ll just buy off the shelf garbage because brand name and nothing else.

    I mean, why does HP’s printer division still exist if “everyone” knows they’re a shitty company that will brick your printer if you use 3rd party cartridges? Why do people buy Tuya devices even though they’re essentially Chinese government spying devices?

    It’s because “everyone” doesn’t know. And they don’t care.

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    • Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When you said “I highly doubt it” in response to the first comment, what were you doubting? You comment does not seem to make sense in response to the comment. They said that the open source project has likely cost more money in lost subscription fee’s than in AWS API calls, and you said you doubt it?

      Then the person replying to you said “The general population is very much influenced by the Home Assistant community” not that everyone knows about it. But your comment talks strictly about how commonly known things in the tech world are not commonly known in the general population (which I think is pretty commonly known in the tech world as well).

      This comment chain does not seem to be talking about the same things.

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• RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But you have to remember, that’s true for lost sales but it’s also true for API calls - only a small fraction of their user base is contributing to this high API usage

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  • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Right, but I highly doubt the back tracking is because of potential lost sales. It sounds more like the financial people got the legal people involved and they sent a C&D without asking the tech people for a solution. Now the tech guys are doing damage control for the idiots.

    I’ve been that tech guy, and I know the general population either has no idea about this occurrence, or they forgot as soon as they scrolled past.

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• SaltySalamander@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This news wasn't limited to Lemmy, you know.

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