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  • just because the appliance you bought offers an internet connection, it most likely doesn’t need it for core functionality.

    …until it does.

    It’s not unprecedented for manufacturers to lock hardware capabilities behind software controlled paywalls.

    When I was shopping for stoves, there were a couple of models with “features” that were not available unless you connected to the internet and used their app on your phone.

    We chose a model that didn’t have any networking at all.


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    mobile web browsers, most websites would serve either a separate style sheet that gave a simplified layout

    A simpler layout and usually a more lightweight page in general because mobile data was slow and expensive back then.

    If someone wanted people to actually use their site on the go, they had to make it load quickly and not cost $5 worth of data doing it.