Recently I thought that it would be cool if I bought a bathroom scale that would sync with my iPhone so I could keep tabs on my exercise effects.
I bought a clever looking one and took it home and was dismayed to find out the only to get it to sync was to create a "cloud account" which would supposedly allow me to "check my progress from anywhere".
I returned that one to the store and bought another - same requirement: Cloud account needed to activate. Took that back. Decided it was easier to just type the number into my phone.
Its hard for me to understand how there are so many people oblivious / ok with the constant surveillance that goes on in their lives.
One motivation for this from the vendor's point of view is that a cloud account means no NAT headaches=fewer customer service calls. I know, you don't need to talk to your scale when you're not home, but even setting up LAN-only access is beyond most civilians.
I bought a clever looking one and took it home and was dismayed to find out the only to get it to sync was to create a "cloud account" which would supposedly allow me to "check my progress from anywhere".
I returned that one to the store and bought another - same requirement: Cloud account needed to activate. Took that back. Decided it was easier to just type the number into my phone.
Its hard for me to understand how there are so many people oblivious / ok with the constant surveillance that goes on in their lives.