alt Hacker NewsI have an Anova sous vide cooker that is also about 10 years old and has an app, but is fully functional without it.
When I bought it the app was free, but then later became a subscription addon. However they grandfathered all original owners into a free lifetime subscription. Pretty classy.
I've bought 4 internet radios over the last 25 years. They work for a few years, then are bricked because the remote server disappeared.