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.