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

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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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      2 months ago

      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.

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        I don’t think it’s a lie to say that the majority of the customer base cares more about convenience and novelty than security of their vacuum.