www/proprietary proprietary-tethers.html

[rsiddharth]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     rsiddharth <rsd>        18/07/06 22:50:40

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-tethers.html 

Log message:
        [RT#1305345] Add Jawbone tethers.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-tethers.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.18&r2=1.19

Patches:
Index: proprietary-tethers.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-tethers.html,v
retrieving revision 1.18
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -b -r1.18 -r1.19
--- proprietary-tethers.html    22 Jun 2018 23:26:33 -0000      1.18
+++ proprietary-tethers.html    7 Jul 2018 02:50:35 -0000       1.19
@@ -21,6 +21,19 @@
 
 <ul>
 <li>
+<p>The Jawbone fitness tracker was tethered to a proprietary phone
+app.  In 2017, the company shut down and made the app stop
+working. <a 
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/05/defunct-jawbone-fitness-trackers-kept-selling-after-app-closure-says-which";>All
+the existing trackers stopped working forever</a>.</p>
+
+<p>The article focuses on a further nasty fillip, that sales of the
+broken devices continued. But I think that is a secondary issue; it
+made the nasty consequences extend to some additional people.  The
+fundamental wrong was to design the devices to depend on something
+else that didn't respect users' freedom.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
 <p>Logitech will sabotage all Harmony Link household control devices by
 <a 
href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/logitech-to-shut-down-service-and-support-for-harmony-link-devices-in-2018/";>
 turning off the server through which the products' supposed owners
@@ -159,7 +172,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/06/22 23:26:33 $
+$Date: 2018/07/07 02:50:35 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>