>As long as they don’t require The Cloud

Given that you hear frequently (even on the front page of HN today)

- people getting locked out of their cloud accounts and then facing a Kafkaesque faceless bureaucracy

- physical products turning into bricks because the cloud account disappeared with the company's failure

I would certainly hope that a cloud account is optional.

> Halter has accumulated what is likely the world’s largest dataset of cattle behavior.

Something tells me you don't acquire the largest dataset of cattle behavior with opt-in cloud analytics.

Given the trends elsewhere that seems inevitable. Or are farmers/ranchers particularly averse to those features?