Incredible. Some of these devices won't even be three years old when they will stop working. They're making sure some people will never ever buy a connected device again. And they'll be better off for it.
People call me a pessimist; however, I like to think of myself as a realist. I am rarely wrong (but I am definitely wrong sometimes). In this case, I was absolutely correct. As soon as the device needed to communicate outside of my own network, I knew it was going to get knee-capped at the manufacturers discretion. Why else force the product to communicate outside of the local network network?
What is even funnier is that they use security devices that are connected via wireless. Thieves merely jam the signal and the cameras and alarms all fail to do what they were purchased to do. It is absolutely hilariously terribly stupid.
But somehow or another, they sold numerous rubes billions (trillions?!) of dollars of shit. I am so disappointed in how stupid manufacturers and society are when put together.