News Summary

• Many smart home gadgets depend on cloud servers to run and are just hollow shells without their internet connection.
• Relying on remote servers may seem fine as long as it keeps our gadgets up and running day to day, but this setup puts you at the mercy of the companies running said servers.
• There are no guarantees that a company will keep funding its backend servers just to keep the lights on for your older devices, so it should go without saying that dropping a few hundred bucks on cloud-connected gadgets is a gamble.