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.

  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Losing the app means that people can’t change the color of the light on the shoe. You can still do all the other shit manually.

    That said, I feel like companies should be required to open source shit like this once they drop support for it. Otherwise stuff like this adds to the mountains of e-waste poisoning the planet.

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      6 months ago

      As if putting a bunch of circuits and lights on a fucking shoe wasn’t e-waste to start with…

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        6 months ago

        I find the concept of a closed source shoe horrifying. 🙂