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“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 months ago by flop_leash_973 to c/technology
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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.

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[–] woelkchen 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't the point of self-lacing shoes that they shouldn't require manual user input at all? What is the app for then?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That’s what my shoes were missing: spyware!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh god! The Chinese know how tight my shoes are? They could overthrow the entire globe with such devastating info!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It’s adorable you think “shoelace tightness” is all that app has awareness of.

[–] meco03211 4 points 4 months ago

I don't know why my first thought from this was Ruth Gator Binsburg. Now I just want something like a shitty_watercolor of that.