Like, one of the primary points of home assistant is making it so more devices aren’t connected to the internet. It doesn’t anonymize the data, it makes it so you can fully locally control a bunch of products (eg, I have tons of products blocked at my firewall from sending or receiving data from WAN; the only way for a hacker to change my thermostat is to be on my LAN, they literally can’t do it remotely).

Not sure if you’re an LLM or just enjoy entirely missing the point.

This article is literally about them cutting their projections of sales, so they clearly expected to sell more than they did / project to.

The comment I replied to was talking specifically about their belief that Apple wants things that are status symbols. I was stating it’s laughable if they wanted that for this device, because it was never an appealing device.

lol if they really thought a face computer so big and bulky and limited and heavy would be a status symbol. I think they genuinely thought that they’d have people on planes wearing these making people jealous enough to fork the money, but it was never practical for that.

The Apple Watch is only a successful product because of the iPhone. It is just a convenient second screen for that, that also happens to track some useful health measures under a guise of privacy.

If Apple is forced (as they are in the EU) to allow third party devices like withings and garmin to interact with notifications as first class citizens, then Apple Watch sales will likely drop off a cliff. Or Apple will innovate. My bet is on the dropping off a cliff though.

Thanks for this review. Really sad to hear this 1k device blows chunks so hard. We need good, innovative, affordable headsets in this space!

Ah thank you, I should’ve read more closely :)

Sure, but closed source audits aren’t often made public. So we don’t know when, or how, closed source software is audited. Beyond just our ability to self audit open source, we often get better reporting on the contracted audits performed on open source software.

This is really awesome — open source allows for auditing. Not great that there are vulnerabilities, but these vulnerabilities also exist (and possibly more) in closed source software that doesn’t get audited to be fixed, just exploited. Hopefully these get patched soon!