Cars are the tip of the iceberg. What about smart home appliances, like garage door openers, or door locks? They all come with their stupid apps, and once the company is dead, suddenly your home stops working.
We really need mandatory standards: post APIs for client-server connectivity and make the connection URL configurable.
Hear me out, in a way that’s actually better, because you can modify the original models to make them better.
Like the guards on these razors have usually annoying flaws: they are too thick, which pushes a lot of hair down, and the bottom is too round and doesn’t lift the hair. You can take the model from Philips, remix it, and get exactly what you need.
And if the company is smart, it will enable sharing of improved models.