• Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    This decision was made so that we can continue to provide the best possible experience

    The best possibile experience is having a single app that can do the whole house, not a broken proprietary app that occupies 200 mb of space on the phone and that takes 5 seconds to start because of its fancy splash screen

    Don’t understand this, they are actively kicking out customers

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      1 year ago

      Ah yes best possibile experience is this: (from the ars Technica article about it)

      “Sadly, this app now displays advertisement at the very top and I cannot find a way to disable it,” writes one Play Store reviewer (Google doesn’t provide links to reviews). “This is very disturbing and on top of it, it moves my garage opening button out of the visible part of the screen. So to use it I now have to first look at the ads, then scroll down and hope to find my button.”

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      1 year ago

      They’re not talking about your experience. They’re talking about the experience at the CEO’s summer house… That tennis court will not build itself and not for free 😁

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      Anything that only uses a phone app creates a mediocre experience by definition.

      If it uses a standard API, it can integrate with anything and is convenient. You can use the phone if you want to.

      All in all, there’s definitely a worrying trend for the worse in the market.

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      1 year ago

      The myQ app sucks so much, it doesn’t even have Siri integration or widgets. Plus it’s riddled with ads for their $100 camera.ARE YOU KIDDING ME‽ I’m 1 starting this actively (meaning at every update I renew my review)