Likewise, Apple does not give Withings access to Apple Health's data, even with user permission.

So, I can understand why Withings does not want to be the one doing the hard work of data collection, while Apple is preparing its own subscription for Health services.

> Likewise, Apple does not give Withings access to Apple Health's data, even with user permission

Yes it does. It's controlled in Apple Health under Sharing

> Apple does not give Withings access to Apple Health's data

What do you mean? My Withings app can access that data without issues

The “hard work of data collection”, it’s a fucking scale and it’s MY data, I paid for the hardware, it’s not Withings data at all. They knew the deal going in, Apple didn’t change the terms.

I’ve been a withings customer for just shy of 15 years. My original scale from 2012 is still kicking and I bought an upgraded one 2 years ago.

I will never pay Withings another dime if they keep up this bullshit and/or look for a way to hack the scale to have it talk to some self-hosted backend/app that does sync to Apple Health.

no one at whitings is working hard on taking any measurements, just some mba convinced themselves that they do actual work

device was bought by customer and it's all customer's data

Surely, the user is doing all the hard work. The scale or whatever is just a tool to do so - like a ruler. Imagine if your measuring tape put the measurements you take behind a paywall.

The thing with eSIMs is that they are bound to an operator, which is supposed to keep record of who is using them. Law enforcement authorities should be able to get to the guys doing this...

... unless they are tied to a government.

> which is supposed to keep record of who is using them

Says who? I've bought single-use eSIM profiles for data while traveling without any KYC in the past; it's actually the norm, not the exception.

Some suppliers specifically advertise that, as well as accepting cryptocurrency.

But you at least had to provide an email and a means of payment.

An anonymous throwaway email address is not exactly hard to find, and payments can be anonymous too. There are resellers of prepaid cards that accept crypto payments, if the eSIM supplier doesn’t accept it already.

HomeView does two things:

- a Home Hub to connect and drive the accessories and Airplay devices in your house

- a UI to support the user experience

I believe that e.g. an AppleTV is already a Home Hub, and the Home app on your iPhone / iPad gives you control over it.

So the value is in the integration and the multi-user support.

Wait until you see the price of the accessories...

The entry ticket is cheap, then you'll probably pay to extend your system.

HomeKit isnt new though, the accessories are the same accessories that have existed for years. Sure Apple has announced new ones today, but its just more options. Home Automation has always been expensive regardless of the ecosystem your in.

What I see is that we are in the phase where managers are buying the marketing hype and think that people can be replaced. I guess people believe what they want to believe.

I anticipate a later wave a re-hiring people who actually know how to run a business / tech center / call center... whatever the AI replaced.

The hard work will not be to replace the people, but to change the organizations so that the productivity of AI can be harvested by the people.

> wave a re-hiring people

While they'll be some for the companies that cut too hard, I don't see a wave coming.

It seems the "kinda sorta" works level that AI vibing creates is seen as good enough by most companies.

While it's true they've always accepted mediocre software I feel AI vibed code is a step below that in terms of quality.

Of course if you're willing to put in the hard graft to carefully write detailed tests and then send your agents away until everything passes then you'll get a better result.

The automated tests I've seen the vibe tools pump out aren't there yet so you still need to put the effort in there.

I was talking to these guys when the faulty fridges got installed (early 2000's).

The IT director was usually a consultant with no say at the executive committee, let alone the board. Reporting to the "Secretary General", along with HR.

It took them a LOT of time to realize that digital was strategic.

I totally understand monitoring the fridges remotely, i.e. making sure the retailer is careful about keeping frozen food... frozen.

Or detect a door that would not close anymore.

But why, oh why, did they allow someone to change the settings remotely? Wouldn't it work to just tell the local operator to adjust a physical knob when necessary?

Turning the lights off or increasing the temp because the doors aren't being opened (or making the PID controller less agressive), when the store closes could save a fair amount of money. Yes you could set the time manually if you change store opening hours but if you have a dozen or a hundred units your underpaid manager isn't going to bother.

To allow remote work. Instead of sending an engineer, issues can be fixed by an engineer or technician on HQ, or an outsourced indian/philipino

There is no limit to burning tokens :)

THERE IS

It started when people laughed at the EU's efforts for privacy, such as the cookie regulation or GDPR.

The first thing that Meta did after Brexit was moving its UK's user data to the US.

> It started when people laughed at the EU's efforts for privacy

The FUD (never laughter) came from the scummy US ad-tech industry; the people whos very salleries depend on invading our privacy.

You will find many of them posting (and downvoting GDPR posts) here on HN to spread their FUD.

Looking forward to a world where humans connect back in real life and leave the Internet to the AI overlords, so that they can crunch the boring administrative tasks for us.

Waterworld :)