cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17360350
“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers
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.
We should stop seeing it as an “old people thing” to be critical of a specific technology or innovation. After all, nowadays it’s often the boomers who are the least aware of the negative aspects of things like social media or “the cloud”, simply because they don’t understand it, and just assume it’s how the world works nowadays.