@arstechnica this is the same kind of B.S. that kills off potentially amazing ideas and transfprmative products. It makes me think of my amazing Pebble smartwatch, which faded into uselessness after Fitbit swooped into buy it and kill it off as a competitor. A community-sourced hack allowed it to live a brief afterlife, but it was never the same. Would Nike allow an open source 3rd party to pick up maintenance and development of the app?... most assuredly not.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: If you buy something that requires an app to function, you don't really own it, no matter what you paid for it, and it's eventually going to turn into a brick.
@arstechnica self tying trainers. That is one of the most absurd and pointless things I’ve heard in some time. Thanks for the laugh. I very much needed it! Actually I think the world could use such laughs.
Surprise surprise, but a show company is not a software / infosec company.
If only they'd learned early to just make it an open source protocol, many would have helped them with their security issues and bugs, not to mention finding all kinds of new wild and wacky ways to use the shoes that would likely have been free marketing gold for them and encouraged whole new generations of cyberkicks.