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“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Bezier@suppo.fi to c/internetofshit@suppo.fi

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17360350

“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers

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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[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago

I really don't get mad about things like this. I mean, who really expected a light up shoe connected to your phone to be a purely functional thing? It's obviously a novelty people wasted money on. I'll never buy a shoe that has any electronics so I don't really care what happens to that section of the market.