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TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

If it’s anything like mine, it works just fine without the app. The app just does brush tracking and shit. I don’t need any of that, so I never set it up. But I suspect even if I had, it would still let me use it without being logged into the app.

I suspect the same is true here. That the function of the toothbrush is available regardless of whether it’s logging data to your phone.

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Tja@programming.dev ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
But that’s way too rational and doesn’t let me rage, I don’t like it!

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xylol@leminal.space ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yeah I got mine on sale a few years ago and totally forgot it had that until it showed up on my home assistant when I got a ZigBee USB dongle for my pi

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raynethackery@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The function is available for now.

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- TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I cannot imagine the value to the company from whatever usage data they get from their toothbrushing app is anything close to the value they get from selling brush heads. So it would be immensely foolish to lock down the toothbrush.
  
  The app is a selling point, and they do it because others do. They’d lose the portion of the market that wants to track which parts of their mouth they’ve brushed properly. But that isn’t their main market, and they’d be idiots to kill their product chasing that niche.
  
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