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7/3/2025, 4:34:56 PM
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>buy the new Smart Home door for my house
>the door has no lock, it opens via an app on my phone, unlocked by my fingerprint
>phone sends signal to company servers, they authenticate and send signal to door, door opens
>the company selling it gets purchased in some corpo merger and the servers are shut down
>i can't enter my house
Why can't, for example, the company release the code so a community of users can host a server? Or I can host my own server? Or make some bootleg solution so the phone talks to the door peer-to-peer?
Why is the DOOR, something traditionally sold as a product and not a service, and that the layman consumer can't be expected to treat as a service when buying, something that can get cancelled like this?
>buy the new Smart Home door for my house
>the door has no lock, it opens via an app on my phone, unlocked by my fingerprint
>phone sends signal to company servers, they authenticate and send signal to door, door opens
>the company selling it gets purchased in some corpo merger and the servers are shut down
>i can't enter my house
Why can't, for example, the company release the code so a community of users can host a server? Or I can host my own server? Or make some bootleg solution so the phone talks to the door peer-to-peer?
Why is the DOOR, something traditionally sold as a product and not a service, and that the layman consumer can't be expected to treat as a service when buying, something that can get cancelled like this?
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