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It’s not entirely surprising when a company chooses to stop paying for the upkeep and continued development of an app for a product it’s no longer making money on
How much fucking upkeep can an app require to operate a pair of shoes?
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2024
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Inevitably what happens after 5 years is that someone reports that the app doesn’t work well with a newer version of iOS or Android, and the person that led the engineering on it is gone, because much of your engineering org has turned over after 5 years.
Then a new person jumps into the old project, finds out that it’s had 1 active user last year, then they question why they have to spend a week bug fixing something for one end user.
As a developer, this is the answer. I can't wait for the day I can finally stop supporting old Amazon Kindle devices.
You're questioning the sanity of people who even develop shoes that need an app
I'm not questioning sanity, I'm questioning why an app that does nothing but send commands over Bluetooth or whatever needs any maintenance whatsoever.
Android isn't stable is my guess
People who bought these are fucking idiots and they deserve much worse then their stupid fucking smart shoes turning into abandonware.
Maybe we wouldn’t have so much shit in landfills if those idiots didn’t gobble up any piece of trash someone wants to sell them.
I could see handicapped people being interested in these. Fuck then I guess right.
Because these are the only shoes that could help handicapped people?
Why choose these over elastic fabric slip-on shoes?
Sure. We totally didn’t have footwear that did not require lacing. Thank god for the tech bro solution. What would the disadvantaged people do if it wasn’t for the free market!
Btw, you really think their app was accessible to handicapped people?
Open source the app?
No. Never. That would be literally impossible.
We are going to far with technology. If you need an app for your shoes.
I'd agree, but these are probably good for people with certain disabilities.
There are shoes that you don't need tho tie that don't need an app and most importantly are not from nike.
Those people could just as easily buy slip-ons, which serve the same purpose while not requiring an app (or any other form of electronics, for that matter).
Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?
Good question, but not in these shoes me think.
I have been further though, and looked way more like, but that was with Adidas.
Are you having a stroke, or am I missing a reference?
It's a very old meme... and not especially applicable here
Sounds like a job for Flipper Zero.
Probably overkill and possibly even overly complicated for an MCU.
This probably just requires some good old reverse engineering the original apps bluetooth API and an app to connect to the shoes.
If they're really lucky, it's simple unencrypted packets they can just capture via Wireshark, but I really haven't looked into it any further than this article summary, so I could be wrong.
If if they can work by simple packet replay, that would be the most simple, and definitely doable by the Flipper.
hearing about shoes that need an app makes me want to stab myself in the testicle.
To be fair, anyone who thought their life needed SaaS supported shoe laces, definitely had this coming.
In terms of cosmic corporate evildoers, Nike may not currently be a top ranked contender, but their definitely an old school hall of fame level player.
So while not saying they were doing the world a favor by dropping cloud shoe lace support, I am saying that the situation is hilarious.
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