Products which have functionality tied to remote servers are products
which end users do not, in practice, actually own. The differentiator
between possessing and owning is the matter of who has control. In the
case of "smart" devices, it is the company which controls the "smart"
device and not the purchaser / subscriber. Thus the company is the real
owner there.
On 10/25/25 02:56, Akira Urushibata wrote:
> More and more of our home appliances are equipped with "smart"
> features. Some connect to cloud servers, which looks like a
> bad idea considering the risk of server-side failure.
[snip]
Speaking of server failure, for those that follow videos, there are some
complicated beds which failed problematically when the company's serer
failed.
"How a smart bed woke people up to lack of ownership; literally"
https://yewtu.be/zLeorZWkWGE
Louis Rossmann has been going on about false versus true ownership for
some time in his videos like the video above.
/Lars
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