I'm extremely for integration of smart features into home, business and industrial applications. However, and this is a great, great big HOWEVER, the smart features must always be an added feature, and absent the customer desiring to use them, or the ability to use them via technical issues/obsolescence, the equipment in question should degrade to a usable state.
Perfect example: I own a bunch of iHome smart outlets that I use with Apple HomeKit. Got a whole box of the things off ebay years ago, paid about $6 each. Along with (obviously) being a smart home accessory that runs via HomeKit, they have a little button on the side you can push to toggle the power on and off. So, in the odd event that my network is being uncooperative and I need to turn a light off, I can do that very easily. Not as easily as I could with my phone, but still quite easily.
I don't understand why industry is so hostile to this. It just makes sense to me: build in all the smart features you like, but if they're not working, just have the bloody thing operate like a normal... whatever. Microwave, lamp, etc.
Perfect example: I own a bunch of iHome smart outlets that I use with Apple HomeKit. Got a whole box of the things off ebay years ago, paid about $6 each. Along with (obviously) being a smart home accessory that runs via HomeKit, they have a little button on the side you can push to toggle the power on and off. So, in the odd event that my network is being uncooperative and I need to turn a light off, I can do that very easily. Not as easily as I could with my phone, but still quite easily.
I don't understand why industry is so hostile to this. It just makes sense to me: build in all the smart features you like, but if they're not working, just have the bloody thing operate like a normal... whatever. Microwave, lamp, etc.