I don't think people who don't want an app - that runs on a few devices that are notorious to privacy invasions by corporations and LEO - that interfaces with potentially grey-area activities doesn't make them a luddite. Presumably they're ordering over the internet and they understand technology, just they know not everything needs to be app-enabled just because the trend says so.
If you're worried about privacy, you should be way more circumspect about "ordering over the internet" than the FF app. My Visa number has been breached
way more times than my phone or phone apps have. (For the record, credit cards=at least ten times, phone/phone apps=ZERO times.)
I don't think it makes anyone a luddite, but if you really "understand technology" and have ever worked on software or hardware systems, you know it's pretty silly to say shit like "jeez man, it's just so
easy to add -X- feature, why don't they do it??" about a device whose design you don't fully understand, or worse, a device that
you've never used, held in your hand, or even seen in real life. The FF guys are pretty fucking smart. If there were a way to give everyone every feature they want, right now, without screwing up twelve other things, they'd do it.
If the app was really taking some info from the internet and applying it maybe I'd feel it was necessary, but from what I gather its just used for changing settings on the vape.
You gather correctly. FF is not logging any data, doesn't much care about your app usage, and in ios there are no permissions required whatsoever. The Android permissions merely enable the FF to communicate via low power Bluetooth. (Again, anyone who missed this...read the thread. Been beaten to death pages back.)
I like technology, but one thing that turns me off from some products is unnecessary technology. For instance I have a nest at home for controlling the heating. In theory it's supposed to connect to the internet to help remember temperature settings and to coordinate with the outside temperature. In reality, it just seems to turn itself off a lot. I much prefer the analog heat control.in.
FF has the same goal, from what I can tell. They wanted to keep it as simple as possible while still adding some functionality. People told them they wanted more heat levels. They gave us that. They couldn't do that, PLUS battery level indicators, PLUS heat level indicators, PLUS making the form factor smaller (all of which were top requested features) without making the functionality too confusing and difficult for most users. (Remember, most users aren't FC-level vape geeks like us.
) They did the best they could making trade-offs between features, form, and usability for the vast majority of their customers.
I understand the complaints, but folks can kvetch all they want...the FF2 isn't going to include local heat control. Maybe they'll figure it out for a future version. Maybe no one will care once they use it (this is my take on it, but I could be wrong, I have a lot of practice at it!
) One thing seems certain: you can accept the device for what it is and what it does, or not. But as the kids say "it is what it is". This is what the FF2 is , and is not. No amount of hand-wringing will change it, and I am fairly sure any dire predictions of "this will hurt sales" will not come to pass....if the brisk pace at which they are selling so far is any indication.
