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I have first hand view of traffic Home Assistant creates.. there is an upside down usage model.

Infrastructure (servers, bandwidth, etc) costs money.

For better or worse, most devices don't have local interfaces. Some matter devices exist in the past year or two, but not all data/functions are available via matter. Older devices likely won't ever be updated to support matter.

Also lump in the fact that HA is a locally run/focused application, it isn't super compatible with a cloud based API/data delivery system without some additional development from the OEM end.

Last I did the math for an internal system.. in 24 hours HA traffic was ~20% of total, for less than 1% of users. That's wild. Mostly because each instance is pinging the API directly every X or less minutes.

If an executive here heard that math, they'd likely ask to block it as well. Right or wrong that's how people react.

No, it isn't. It literally created a second class of phone users in America.

Specific example: When on dating apps you see "green bubbles" as a red flag/un-dateable trait, it has done considerable harm.

So many people are overengineering this... I have a wireless Jabra headset. Works great. At home I use one of those usb speakerphone pucks, works great. Not these super special desktop mics that streamers or radio broadcasters use.

The people who try to use their webcam mic or the built in mic are the ones causing most of the problem (yes I'm also looking at you Macbook users).

I always thought it'd be a great idea if in your internal Teams or Zoom instance you had a "send this person a new headset" button to fix the problem.

Whenever you see one of these "it's product" or "it's engineers" all I can think of is "someone has more business context or knowledge than the others"

The best teams I've ever worked on as a product manager/owner is where we have shared context. These problems described here are minimal. In those teams I could provide technical input to engineers, and engineers gave me "consumer facing" suggestions on features.

I've believed for a long time that lack of business/use context drives a lot of these issues.

Take for instance I currently work at an IoT company, and if I'm working with engineers who have no idea what a thermostat does/how it works other than "makes it hotter or colder" then we have much more difficulty building shared understanding of a feature request.

I also know this because 10 years ago that was my simple understanding of a thermostat... so it was much harder for me to understand why we were doing certain things.

The friends I have that work there that love it are absolute workaholics.

Amazon takes every minute they're willing to give, they're successful and consistently promoted/paid more.

This is also why I'll never work at Amazon. Haha.

One frivolous lawsuit destroys the revenue from multiple happy customers. Unfortunately.

The State of MN stopped accepting certain credit cards for many DMV type activities, and now only accept ones that allow an explicit surcharge (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, Amex).

That's the interesting bit for me.

I DO believe people are calling the police less for crime, even violent crime.

However, how do you have an official source of "I decided not to call the cops".

How does one have an official source of "A crime was done to me but I just decided to not call the police"

But this cultural issue is literally quoted in the DOJ complaint against Apple.

Apple, by overlaying iMessage features over SMS and only accessible to iPhone users have created a virtual second class of phone users.

I'm not saying I run into these people, and I agree with your take.

> Not at all. A few of my friends are techies and they use Android/iPhone about 50/50. Family is mixed as well. No one in family uses iMessage.

I would bet money this is the opposite of the majority experience.

Your average iphone user has no idea what this is.

All the know is "android makes the bubbles green and iMessage doesn't work as well with them, or at all".

Are your various friends/family all tech-y people?

My "normal" friends and family are majority iPhone users. I'm Android.

I "literally ruin" their group texts. I've seen people actually reject relationships because they don't date people with "green bubbles".

Don't even get me started about work group texts.

I know restaurants where some of the servers have group iMessage chats with customers for early notification about nightly specials, Android users literally can't be added.

Likely not maliciously, but this has created almost a "second/lower class" of phone users that encompasses ~50% of the country.

And yet here I am with my 10+ years of experience, without a degree. I've met people better than me with less experience and no degree, and people who aren't very good that have MANY degrees.

Yet we've gone through many iterations of the interview process (and testing, things like leetcode) to avoid having to basically accept a gut check of "do I think this person will perform well".

It's more of an art versus science than I think people give it credit for.

So is interviewing itself.