It’s beyond wild to me why anyone would have any kind of “loyalty” to Amazon. I’m also somewhat astonished at how popular it’s become to hook everything in your house up to the Internet, including door locks. I understand these aren’t new observations or concerns, but it still surprises me how people go “all in” on anything corporate, and anything smart home. (I say, posting from one of the many Apple devices in my Apple-only home.)
Seems like corporations the last couple of years have been leaning HARD into giving people reasons why they can’t be trusted.
I bought into some smart LED lights years ago with dreams of automating when they would turn on, setting mood lighting, etc. The features were cool and all but disconnects, lag times and just general bugs kept reappearing periodically and I decided that lighting is something I want to “just work”. And that’s for a relatively minor inconvenience where I always had a lamp or a flashlight nearby as a backup plan. I can’t imagine putting something like a door lock on the internet, even if I trusted the company - which I assuredly don’t.
