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“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That’s what my shoes were missing: spyware!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh god! The Chinese know how tight my shoes are? They could overthrow the entire globe with such devastating info!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It’s adorable you think “shoelace tightness” is all that app has awareness of.