Airbnb's preferred smart lock vendor accidentally bricks 500 door-locks

Re:Airbnb's preferred smart lock vendor accidentally bricks ... by frgtpsswrdlame on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:33PM (#15010583)

We/the media really should have picked a word other than "smart" for these devices.

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Re:Airbnb's preferred smart lock vendor accidentally bricks ... by crooked-v on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:36PM (#15010608)

https://twitter.com/internetofshit

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Re:Airbnb's preferred smart lock vendor accidentally bricks ... by nxsynonym on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:45PM (#15010704)

I think "connected" would be a good replacement term.

Smart implies some sort of intuitiveness or responsiveness, which is often not the case.

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Re:Airbnb's preferred smart lock vendor accidentally bricks ... by duncanawoods on Monday August 14, 2017 @02:28PM (#15011134)

Not bad. Could go further and call them "dependent" to make it unambiguous that they are not standalone devices but out of your control and potentially worthless if the connected services close or fail.

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Re:Airbnb's preferred smart lock vendor accidentally bricks ... by jlgaddis on Monday August 14, 2017 @07:02PM (#15013815)

The Marketing Department would never approve using that term!

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