Cloud support - fine. Cloud requirement to be of any use - one should only buy it if he's ok with a Chinese company knowing his name, where he lives, when he's at home and when not, which room is the kids', and pretty much everything else.
A company in your own country is subject to at least some responsibility for misuse, mishandling, leaking etc your private data. Chinese companies just funnel everything they have to CCP for whatever mining they want to do.
The same could be said of other companies, especially for non-residents of the USA. In either case, they have no business making maps of my own home, especially when I can't even access those maps myself to see what's going on with my roomba! /etc
As a US resident, it's not like a domestic vendor would be any better - we don't have anything you'd mistake for data protection laws (and security breach notification requirements primarily emphasize equal notification of shareholders, not consumers.) So, yeah, I'm not going to turn on any of this (and I worry about cheap ubiquitous 5G leading to boxes that don't need to be configured for my wifi to phone home - fortunately, the US is mostly network deployment backwater and it'll be years before that's a real threat, but not for any good reasons.)
But "they have no business" ... isn't particularly stopping them, is it?
> But "they have no business" ... isn't particularly stopping them, is it?
In this case, "they have no business..." means it's my personal belief, which supports my own justification into not buying these products. No matter what country the company comes from. I of course make this decision on a product by product basis because in some cases it's hard to avoid them or other factors come into play...
