Toyota, Progressive Insurance, and a data analytics firm are now being accused of collecting detailed personal driving information without proper consent
Toyota, Progressive Insurance, and a data analytics firm are now being accused of collecting detailed personal driving information without proper consent
Some people would like the feature where they are notified that the job is finished but don’t want to allow it to connect to the manufacturer. That would be possible if you could get one that uses Thread over Matter.
Most people either don’t care about the feature or don’t care about their privacy so it’s a real niche market.
My 15 year old dishwasher makes a happy little jingle when it’s done to let me know it’s finished. Alternatively, I can just look at it the next time I’m in the kitchen and see if it’s done. I can’t think of any scenario where I am so pressed for time that I must be notified the second my dishwasher is done, but also be far enough away that I don’t hear it’s pretty loud jingle. All so I can… What? Do another load of dishes? Who would ever need that?
I don’t need it either but the home automation guys often want to do things that I don’t understand and detecting when an appliance has finished its job is one of them.
Yeah but it seems clear from @MonsterMonster@lemmy.world’s comment that they also think this is frivolity, so the unrelated niche market is a moot point in this case.