“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers
“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers
Without updates or ability to download after August, app will become useless.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17360350
“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers
It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.
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feel free to file this comment under the heading "old man yells at clouds" , but it is just kind of comically dystopian to talk about concepts like "losing shoe functionality" or having features of your shoes bricked. it makes me laugh in an "otherwise i'd be crying" kind of way
isn't that what /internetofshit is all about?
We should stop seeing it as an "old people thing" to be critical of a specific technology or innovation. After all, nowadays it's often the boomers who are the least aware of the negative aspects of things like social media or "the cloud", simply because they don't understand it, and just assume it's how the world works nowadays.