“It could have been worse,” one owner incredibly concluded.

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    On one hand, that’s pretty funny. But why would you allow the thing on the internet? No experience with robot vacuums, but don’t you just throw in on the floor? Set and forget?

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      It needs to communicate to the phone app somehow and anything else is going to be too big a hurdle for a huge portion of the customer base.

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        anything else is going to be too big a hurdle for a huge portion of the customer base.

        That’s just a lie companies tell to try to excuse their theft of your data. They could make it work locally and be user-friendly at the same time if they wanted to, but they just don’t want to.