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Lowe's is shutting down its Iris smart home platform at the end of March
In a move that may seem obvious in retrospect, Lowe's has decided that its Iris smart home platform is not in fact going to take off. Instead, the home improvement-focused retail chain is shutting the service down on March 31st, 2019 and advising all Iris users to kindly avoid taking their no-longer-functioning products back to a Lowe's store. The company says it will however give you some money back in the form of a prepaid Visa card that will help you "migrate to another smart home platform," reads the company's website.
[...] Alternatively, Lowe's says that a number of the products that are compatible with Iris are also compatible with Samsung's SmartThings platform, and SmartThings is apparently agreed to help with the transition process. Some other Iris products use standard protocols like Zigbee and Z-Wave, notes Android Police, meaning they should also work with other platforms beyond SmartThings if you don't feel like trying to get your money back.
Dumb as a bag of hammers.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Sunday February 03 2019, @07:20PM (2 children)
Not only are hammers useful, they have no anti-consumer features built in.
Well, people can get whacked over the head with one, but technically that is a user problem :P. But hammers do not (yet!) track every whack you make, analyze what you have whacked for marketing purposes, report to big brother if you whack something you shouldn't, digitally prevent you from whacking nails/posts/whatever from another vendor, artificially limit how long you can use it, or magically stop working when the company stops supporting it. Whack, whack whack.
"Smart" home/IoT crap always knows when you are whacking, how hard, and for how long. :P
Hammers are extremely useful for smashing Smart Home platforms to bits, and whacking consumertards who buy this stuff.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday February 03 2019, @07:29PM
Funny, insightful, Damn we need a hilariously insightful mod.
In lieu of that, I shall choose insightful....
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(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday February 03 2019, @07:35PM
"Not only are hammers useful, they have no anti-consumer features built in."
Now you've got me trying to imagine how DRM for a hammer would work......you just know someone, somewhere is working on this very shortcoming...
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