gloriouscowThere's an alternate timeline where the CueCat was hugely successful and we all carry them around daily, and there is a vibrant ecosystem of custom CueCat holsters for sale as quick and convenient CueCat access is essential to the modern lifestyle.
Mad Engineering@gloriouscow Cuecat was horribly enshittified from the beginning. It was hobbled to only work with their weird proprietary barcodes, it insisted on running everything through their data scraping.server (which is how they planned to finance all these free devices), and they responded to people trying to "declaw" this with lawsuits.
Juicero's bullshit all over again.