Without updates or ability to download after August, app will become useless.

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.

    • magic_lobster_party@kbin.run
      21·
      4 months ago

      The problem is that there are usually no other alternatives, or at least not any easily accessible. Heck, these days even routers require app activation for no reason other than to be shitty.

      There should be a law against this. All hardware requiring an app should also have an open API.

      • SaltySalamander@fedia.io
        5·
        4 months ago

        Heck, these days even routers require app activation for no reason other than to be shitty

        There are more often than not alternatives that exist that don’t have this requirement.

    • BangCrash@lemmy.worldEnglish
      227·
      4 months ago

      How did you post this comment?

      Were you using an app?

      Edit: humour is lost on the humourless

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        4 months ago

        There isn’t one app to post to Lemmy, there’s a dozen. And they’re open source mostly. And there’s a web page. And you can self-host a fediverse node. And ActivityPub is an open standard. And and and.

        Now if this was Reddit, you might be closer to the mark.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        How did you post this comment? // Were you using an app?

        Please refer to the context when interpreting what others say dammit. Your questions stink “ackshyually lol lmao” from a distance.

        The OP is talking about sneakers unnecessarily requiring an “app”; in this context, Farts’ “anything” should be interpreted as “physical goods” (like sneakers), not “internet services that may be accessed through a browser or specialised software” (like Lemmy).

        • BangCrash@lemmy.worldEnglish
          17·
          4 months ago

          I’m sorry oh mighty one.

          I’ll go and enjoy the pun over here while you try to figure out if what I wrote was intentionally funny or accidentally funny, or funny at all. Social ques are hard aren’t they.

          • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            You might have intended it to be funny, but it wasn’t, as it is clear from the downvotes. So instead of trying to convince everybody in multiple desperate comments that they are wrong, maybe just move on.

            • BangCrash@lemmy.worldEnglish
              12·
              4 months ago

              Ya a little late to the game buddy. Convo is a day old at this point.

              But thanks for trying

          • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            Cut off the crap.

            “Ackshyually I was totally joking! Yeah, it was a joke! You’re just too stupid to get the clue” doesn’t work if there’s no clue that it’s a joke on first place, no matter if you rephrase it with Reddit style passive aggressiveness.

            Please do everyone in Lemmy a favour and stay in Reddit. You’ll be in more suitable company.