Software developer and open source proponent Jeff Geerling recently purchased a new Bosch 500 dishwasher, only to find it required an app to access certain features. This is his story.
Software developer and open source proponent Jeff Geerling recently purchased a new Bosch 500 dishwasher, only to find it required an app to access certain features. This is his story.
That has fuck-all to do with the guy’s complaint, which was about it failing to provide the simple ability to use the advertised features of the machine from the machine’s control panel, not anything to do with privacy.
I had assumed that he didn’t want to use an app because of privacy concerns, not that he didn’t have a way to install the app. We’ve allowed this behavior to become normalized already though. It is significantly harder now days to find consumer products like routers that don’t require an app to manage & use. It’s not like either side of the political aisle has been seriously pushing for regulation regarding privacy, when they absolutely love being able to get all that data directly from these conglomerates without a court order.