By Geoffrey A. Fowler Geoffrey A. Fowler Technology columnist based in San Francisco Email Bio Follow March 14 at 1:37 PM Nike’s most-advanced kicks have been turning into bricks. Blame the Internet.
Nike says the problem affected a small number of customers, though its app has a 2.4-star rating in Google’s Play store. Nike's Adapt BB shoes stopped working for some owners after a software update. Relationship material What really is a connected shoe — or smart speaker, thermostat or other connected thing? It’s a way for a company to stay in your life. Before you bring one home, it’s best to ask if they’re truly relationship material.
“When it works, over-the-air software updates are incredibly useful at prolonging the relevance of a product,” Béhar said. Electric car updates improve battery life, and speaker updates improve sound quality, he said. They also provide critical security updates, which we want. A corrupted update wouldn’t have been lethal except for another Nike oversight: Some shoes shipped without a “gold image” backup of the software they needed to operate. It was a recipe for making self-lacing shoes come undone.
At least you can take off the sneakers. Imagine if you’ve built a smart product into your home, and its maker goes out of business, sells to another company or for whatever reason shuts off your product.
True. It makes me laugh when we're invited to ' buy' digital downloads. At best, you're renting.
OhItsTeddy 🤦♂️
ChuckWendig You know how I learned how to tie my shoes? My sister showed me a few times, then untied them and went to the playground. I couldn't join her until I tied my shoes. Get on my level Nike.
ChuckWendig Think McFly, think!
ChuckWendig How times change. I don't remember who taught me to tie my shoes (no slip-ons then). I remember practicing on a big wooden shoe in K'garten. Now retired, I tutor reading in Kindergarten. I'm surprised how many 5-6yo can't tie their own laces. Velcro and slip-ons reduce need too.
Perhaps we should think about not being the absolute laziest species on the planet. Tie your shoes people!
lol... I can just imagine the phone support conversation Phone-Support: This is Michael with Nike phone-support, how can I help you? Me: Yeah, I bricked my shoes
The best thing they could ever do is get rid of the Internet altogether...and wouldn't you all croak if they did...LMFAO!
Oh, the horror.
Yeah, this is why I worry about self driving cars and planes that nose down. Call me Amish, but I'm going to teach my kids to tie their own shoes and drive their own cars.
Wow, this kinda sounds almost as bad as actually being wapo!
Social media put code in your phone to track, and perform surveillance on everything you do to report back to the CIA. Social media lets them and gets money from them.
The Washington Post is a trash outlet, fake news.
and this is why we don't need everything to be electronic/computerized
Sneaker-net is down