Oh yeah for sure, but I think there are definitely reasons for it. The enshittification/technoshit that comes out of the iot world (and all other devices) because of corporate greed just ruins it even more.
The whole signing up for a Samsung account thing etc for your fridge. Stuff like this really just needs to be legislated under some kind of "all technology should just work, locally and with one another with at least an agreed set of features" level.
Apple should have been legally forced to use USB C (or whatever alternative was best) ages ago, even before the EU got to them. Apple were happy to use Wifi/Bluetooth/etc/etc standards yet still wanted to use other proprietary BS.
Same goes for literally everything else: all technologies should work together using at least a common method (with say options for proprietary stuff) and iot/whatever should all work flawlessly locally without any account or internet connectivity (which should all be 100% optional). Devices should work flawlessly even if the company that produces them has shut down all servers and gone bankrupt.
We need to force our governments to do this stuff for us.
The whole signing up for a Samsung account thing etc for your fridge. Stuff like this really just needs to be legislated under some kind of "all technology should just work, locally and with one another with at least an agreed set of features" level.
Apple should have been legally forced to use USB C (or whatever alternative was best) ages ago, even before the EU got to them. Apple were happy to use Wifi/Bluetooth/etc/etc standards yet still wanted to use other proprietary BS.
Same goes for literally everything else: all technologies should work together using at least a common method (with say options for proprietary stuff) and iot/whatever should all work flawlessly locally without any account or internet connectivity (which should all be 100% optional). Devices should work flawlessly even if the company that produces them has shut down all servers and gone bankrupt.
We need to force our governments to do this stuff for us.