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I have first hand view of traffic Home Assistant creates.. there is an upside down usage model. Infrastructure (servers, bandwidth, etc) costs money. For better or worse, most devi…

Volkswagen has an EU Data Act site: https://drivesomethinggreater.com/eu-data-act

No, it isn't. It literally created a second class of phone users in America. Specific example: When on dating apps you see "green bubbles" as a red flag/un-dateable trait, it has d…

So many people are overengineering this... I have a wireless Jabra headset. Works great. At home I use one of those usb speakerphone pucks, works great. Not these super special des…

Whenever you see one of these "it's product" or "it's engineers" all I can think of is "someone has more business context or knowledge than the others" The best teams I've ever wor…

The friends I have that work there that love it are absolute workaholics. Amazon takes every minute they're willing to give, they're successful and consistently promoted/paid more.…

One frivolous lawsuit destroys the revenue from multiple happy customers. Unfortunately.

The State of MN stopped accepting certain credit cards for many DMV type activities, and now only accept ones that allow an explicit surcharge (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, Amex).

That's the interesting bit for me. I DO believe people are calling the police less for crime, even violent crime. However, how do you have an official source of "I decided not to c…

How does one have an official source of "A crime was done to me but I just decided to not call the police"

But this cultural issue is literally quoted in the DOJ complaint against Apple. Apple, by overlaying iMessage features over SMS and only accessible to iPhone users have created a v…

I'm not saying I run into these people, and I agree with your take. > Not at all. A few of my friends are techies and they use Android/iPhone about 50/50. Family is mixed as well. …

Your average iphone user has no idea what this is. All the know is "android makes the bubbles green and iMessage doesn't work as well with them, or at all".

Are your various friends/family all tech-y people? My "normal" friends and family are majority iPhone users. I'm Android. I "literally ruin" their group texts. I've seen people act…

And yet here I am with my 10+ years of experience, without a degree. I've met people better than me with less experience and no degree, and people who aren't very good that have MA…

Or the fact that many of the major "security bad press" or "S in IoT stands for security" stories are because such interfaces were made but not properly secured. (see bosch story)

Understood, and I've advocated for this at my company, but I like to talk about things I have sphere of influence over.

How do you know these are Haier's best customers? By definition, they are using MORE platform/API traffic than the average user and not paying more.

That's what I don't get, why they didn't just start with pure math/data when reaching out to the developer. The only thing I can think of is someone outside of the "knowledge chain…

> Yes, they are your users. They are likely the people who will gush about your product to their friends and result in more sales. If the plugin could be behaved better: Make a PR …

> Design a better api, bud. If you can't deal with all of your users using the product you sold them, the product you made is trash and your users deserve a refund. If 3k home assi…

I have data to back this up (at least for our products), do you?

That's exactly what Haier is doing, just via legal means than technical ones. We actually have a public self-serve API. In some cases, if I've tried the diplomatic approach, I've h…

Haier (at least this product in the EU) doesn't have a published/public API. The code in question scraped the API off of app/device traffic. Also, Home Assistant is a locally focus…

At this point? I'd push harder to avoid all this negative press that is pervasive in IoT journo when it REALLY impacts a percent of a percent. When the Chamberlain story happened, …