Belkin is the latest company to painfully demonstrate that you no longer own what you buy, and the whims of corporate executives can very often leave you with expensive paperweights. In a recent st…
I remember my parents got some Philips lightbulbs years ago, I set it up for them. They never used any of the functionality after the first month. They were just normal white lightbulbs that got turned off by a light switch.
Realistically, most of this stuff is just an excuse to harvest people’s data and up charge them for appliances.
It’s fine for hobbyists who can set up all this stuff properly and find use to it, but the vast vast majority of people who have this stuff aren’t hobbyists, won’t set it up properly or keep it up to date, and will never actually find utility in it. It’ll just sit there doing the same thing as a normal equivalent for twice the price and while being a massive liability.
I remember my parents got some Philips lightbulbs years ago, I set it up for them. They never used any of the functionality after the first month. They were just normal white lightbulbs that got turned off by a light switch.
Realistically, most of this stuff is just an excuse to harvest people’s data and up charge them for appliances.
It’s fine for hobbyists who can set up all this stuff properly and find use to it, but the vast vast majority of people who have this stuff aren’t hobbyists, won’t set it up properly or keep it up to date, and will never actually find utility in it. It’ll just sit there doing the same thing as a normal equivalent for twice the price and while being a massive liability.