Regarding the OP. I'm sick of everything you buy now has an app to control it.
We bought a robotic mower a few years ago. Simple operation, you pin your code in, set it to work between certain hours on certain days, press the OK button, press the Start button, close the flap and walk away. It toddles off and does it's thing, when the battery is getting low it finds its guide wire and goes home for a re-charge. Once charged it comes out and carries on, repeating this procedure if necessary until it is time to stop. It's great. Its worked unfailingly for the past 3 or 4 years.
This year we bought the upgraded model, (couldn't get the old one), which is controlled by an app on my wifes phone, (how come you can only control app based things from one phone???). If it gets stuck somewhere, like in a narrow gap or it's front/back end stuck on a rock in the rockery, you have to manually move it. This sends a message saying it been lifted and you then have to reset the damn thing via the app. If my wife is not at home then it just sits there waiting for instructions until my wife comes home with her phone. No use putting it on mine because I'm at work during the day and, to be honest, I can't figure out how to programme the damn thing.
I wear hearing aids and used to have battery ones. Last year I changed to re-chargeable ones and they are great. The audiologist set them up to link with my phone so if someone calls me I simply tap my right ear and take the call. To end the call I tap my ear again. Very handy if I'm doing something, like driving, because I can safely take a call and not rummage through my pockets if I'm in the middle of a job.
Yesterday I went for a check-up/adjustment and a young audiologist explained I can alter the levels myself for various situations, i.e. a level for watching TV, a different one if I'm in a busy restaurant, a different one if the noise levels are constantly changing, etc, etc. So she downloaded it for me and showed me how to use it. Last night I discovered that I've lost the phone call function so now I have to answer the phone in the usual manner. I can't get it adjusted until next weekend as the audiologist has to do it on their equipment.
Progress has it's cost.
