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I’m sorry. I’m really sorry. But why does a bed need to be smart? This is the dumbest timeline ever. It really is
To help people with paralysis shimmy into their wheelchairs in the morning and to keep the elderly in poorly insulated homes from freezing in the night.
okay sounds good. why the cloud thou
Thou must use the cloud so that thine company hast a recurring revenue stream.
Likely has remote monitoring and control functionality for nursing staff or families
From what I've seen, it's actually a really good product. Just that the company is trash and forces subscriptions and the mattresses to be always online.
A subscription for a mattress. This is where we are now.
How can that possibly be a good product?
The tech and the physical product is good. The software and the system around it is bad.
Bahahahaha!