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I'm also diabetic and I don't drink sugary beverages at all, I really can't handle that much sugar anyway. I also cannot stand the taste of artificial sweeteners, and avoid them completely. I basically just drink seltzers, unsweetend ice tea, water, and straight liquor (lol!)
 
I ordered one of those treadmills to get some walking exercise to use instead of just standing at my work desk; only to find that it requires an app to use it at all even though it comes with a separate dedicated remote control.

When you turn it on, it refuses to do anything at all. Pressing buttons on the remote just results in a beep sound and nothing else. It will only start working once you have downloaded their AI phone app and registered, I do mean that literally it even says it uses AI within the app. This app also requires you to input all of your details to register before it will unlock the treadmill to start working.

None of these requirements are mentioned on the Amazon page, heck it says the app is optional.
 
CommanderZx2 said:
I ordered one of those treadmills to get some walking exercise to use instead of just standing at my work desk; only to find that it requires an app to use it at all even though it comes with a separate dedicated remote control.

When you turn it on, it refuses to do anything at all. Pressing buttons on the remote just results in a beep sound and nothing else. It will only start working once you have downloaded their AI phone app and registered, I do mean that literally it even says it uses AI within the app. This app also requires you to input all of your details to register before it will unlock the treadmill to start working.

None of these requirements are mentioned on the Amazon page, heck it says the app is optional.
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Yikes, they will be selling that data. Personally I would return it on those grounds.
 
CommanderZx2 said:
None of these requirements are mentioned on the Amazon page, heck it says the app is optional.
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It's not as described, so you should definitely be entitled to a refund, even if the item has been opened.

Hardware that requires an app to function is a brick waiting to happen. Sooner or later it either falls out of compatibility with OS updates, gets discontinued, or the developer artificially kills the link to old hardware to make you buy a new model.
 
Dai said:
It's not as described, so you should definitely be entitled to a refund, even if the item has been opened.

Hardware that requires an app to function is a brick waiting to happen. Sooner or later it either falls out of compatibility with OS updates, gets discontinued, or the developer artificially kills the link to old hardware to make you buy a new model.
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Unfortunately it is all too common now a day's. Just look into buying a new hi-fi, almost every one of them relies on a mobile app for numerous functions that aren't available as buttons.
 
CommanderZx2 said:
I ordered one of those treadmills to get some walking exercise to use instead of just standing at my work desk; only to find that it requires an app to use it at all even though it comes with a separate dedicated remote control.

When you turn it on, it refuses to do anything at all. Pressing buttons on the remote just results in a beep sound and nothing else. It will only start working once you have downloaded their AI phone app and registered, I do mean that literally it even says it uses AI within the app. This app also requires you to input all of your details to register before it will unlock the treadmill to start working.

None of these requirements are mentioned on the Amazon page, heck it says the app is optional.
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Over engineering
 
CommanderZx2 said:
I ordered one of those treadmills to get some walking exercise to use instead of just standing at my work desk; only to find that it requires an app to use it at all even though it comes with a separate dedicated remote control.

When you turn it on, it refuses to do anything at all. Pressing buttons on the remote just results in a beep sound and nothing else. It will only start working once you have downloaded their AI phone app and registered, I do mean that literally it even says it uses AI within the app. This app also requires you to input all of your details to register before it will unlock the treadmill to start working.

None of these requirements are mentioned on the Amazon page, heck it says the app is optional.
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I hate everything about this, and I hate the modern world. Sorry to hear that you were tricked like this. I honestly consider stuff like this to be a scam when it isn't explicitly advertised.

I've seen a few videos recently telling a more accurate history of luddites. Turns out they weren't anti-technology or anti-progress for the sake of it, but rather they were against the technologies that effectively robbed people of skilled artful trades, and replaced it with cramming dozens/hundreds of people into squalid, hellish, dangerous factories and workhouses full of injuries and death. I had no idea about it. With that new context, I'm quite happy to say that I'm a 21st century luddite.
 
I willingly adopt most modern technology but I pick and choose what I want. AI, anything that wants to collect and harvest my personnel data, social media, smart phones-no thanks. I have a nice exercycle that I got a few years ago that has a digital console, all I do is climb on it and set my level of intensity and away I go. It has no apps or any other crap like that. Guess I'm a luddite myself.
 
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