I got a free google home mini back when I bought my pixel 2 like 8 years ago. I was on board for a bit, loved that I could turn my smart lights on and off with it, play music in the shower, or start a kitchen timer while my hands were dirty.
But that’s like… all it did. And after a couple of updates it didn’t even do that properly anymore and it was a fight to get it to do anything. That fucking robot voice would argue with everything before just fucking starting the timer with the same command I’d given a hundred times.
Ended up binning the thing, and throwing all my smart shit in the bin (except my dishwasher but I disconnected that too, after I had to wait for an update to use it once. And it’s operated perfectly fine without internet for like 5 years now.)
Don’t forget to hire famous people to advertise how great these products are and rebrand them as helpful when the truth comes out Looking at you meta and your perv glasses.
That’s exactly how you do it. Tell them it is “smart tech” and “convenient” and they will buy your lies and products as you spy on them for profit.
I got a free google home mini back when I bought my pixel 2 like 8 years ago. I was on board for a bit, loved that I could turn my smart lights on and off with it, play music in the shower, or start a kitchen timer while my hands were dirty.
But that’s like… all it did. And after a couple of updates it didn’t even do that properly anymore and it was a fight to get it to do anything. That fucking robot voice would argue with everything before just fucking starting the timer with the same command I’d given a hundred times.
Ended up binning the thing, and throwing all my smart shit in the bin (except my dishwasher but I disconnected that too, after I had to wait for an update to use it once. And it’s operated perfectly fine without internet for like 5 years now.)
Don’t forget to hire famous people to advertise how great these products are and rebrand them as helpful when the truth comes out Looking at you meta and your perv glasses.