Smart scale goes dumb as Under Armour pulls the plug on connected tech

Only half a week ago we had a thread that Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service. I suppose I could just copy my comment from there but you might want to look it up as some discussion followed.

"The manufacturer should never be able to either deactivate or otherwise disable the functionality of a device they sold in a form that requires a service to function. [...]"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22083881