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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17360350
“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers
It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.
gwindli ( @gwindli@lemy.lol ) 17•2 months agofeel free to file this comment under the heading “old man yells at clouds” , but it is just kind of comically dystopian to talk about concepts like “losing shoe functionality” or having features of your shoes bricked. it makes me laugh in an “otherwise i’d be crying” kind of way
fogstormberry ( @fogstormberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•2 months agoisn’t that what /internetofshit is all about?
LoamImprovement ( @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ) 5•2 months agoThe future is here and it sucks.
JillyB ( @JillyB@beehaw.org ) 3•2 months agoI really don’t get mad about things like this. I mean, who really expected a light up shoe connected to your phone to be a purely functional thing? It’s obviously a novelty people wasted money on. I’ll never buy a shoe that has any electronics so I don’t really care what happens to that section of the market.
deikoepfiges_dreirad ( @deikoepfiges_dreirad@lemmy.zip ) 2•2 months agoWe should stop seeing it as an “old people thing” to be critical of a specific technology or innovation. After all, nowadays it’s often the boomers who are the least aware of the negative aspects of things like social media or “the cloud”, simply because they don’t understand it, and just assume it’s how the world works nowadays.
xyguy ( @xyguy@startrek.website ) English5•2 months agoThe good news is that you can still tie them with an on-shoe button. But, you cant change the colors of the lights anymore. So basically garbage at this point.
ryannathans ( @ryannathans@aussie.zone ) 5•2 months agoInto the landfill with the rest of it
asexualchangeling ( @asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml ) 3•2 months agoI’m really dyslexic, I just read “Nike killing app for $350 self-typing sneakers”