alt Hacker NewsSo many developers do this, and it's infuriating. I have a device sitting there on my perfectly good LAN, yet if I want to remote control it, the brilliant software decides to send the commands to the Internet, then back to my device, then the response gets routed to the Internet, and back to my phone.
Device developers, stop doing this! You people realize that LANs exist, don't you?
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I was doing firmware + mobile a at large-ish startup a decade ago. Same story as Sonos; there was a push to go all cloud instead of our local network implementation that worked great.
I argued breathlessly against it for days. I’ll never forget the sales chad raising his voice to shut me down with a cop-out:“This is the way the industry is going!”.
It’s not the developers making these changes.
As I said at [1] they want to centralise it as a control point so they can monetize it.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376040