Comment by dabinat
1 day ago
I meant the clock itself doesn’t need an internet or local network connection, with which it could do things other than syncing the time.
1 day ago
I meant the clock itself doesn’t need an internet or local network connection, with which it could do things other than syncing the time.
Then I think this is a trap to get some kind of proprietary app onto your phone.
The clock could set itself from radio signals: standards-compliant.
The clock could have WiFi or Ethernet and use [S]NTP: standards-compliant.
The clock could have a SIM and use NITZ: standards-compliant.
But BT it is. So now rather than having a dependency on standard or generic resources, it requires a BT pairing with the right kind of phone Ridiculous.
> Then I think this is a trap to get some kind of proprietary app onto your phone.
This was my thinking as well, and why I rejected the idea. I'm not installing some rando company's information-harvesting data-selling garbage app on my phone to do something that the clock should do itself.