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“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 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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[–] Voroxpete 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely 100% unironically: Not with that attitude.

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

Not sure which country you're from, but I've basically lost the any hope I can influence any policy in my country with ANY attitude. I hope I'm wrong about other countries.

[–] Voroxpete 1 points 5 months ago

Look up "right to repair" laws. There are efforts all across the world to get them passed, and many of them have been successful. This is absolutely a thing that you can in fact make a difference on.