A DRM-locked, $400 tea-brewing machine from the Internet of Shit timeline

I get how we got here. And I think that some products can get away with this. If a consumer buys a razor for $15 and it has propitiatory razor head system, heck if it has DRM razor heads, if things go bad in the many ways possible, the consumer is out $15. That isn’t a bank breaking loss.

I just don’t think that model scales up well to more expensive items when you tack on DRM and the poor performance these over engineered solutions seem to always deliver.