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>>heshie+(OP)
I can only imagine Mazda's stake in this is that the OSS project is doing something that Mazda would like to monetize. Otherwise why limit a project that's making people fell better about their car purchase?

The worst thing to happen to home automation was companies trying to lock customers into their ecosystem without greater interoperability.

>>madrox+Wa
Why almost all companies make their systems difficult to customize and introperate with?

Lately I've been fighting with things like iOS, Chromecast, "smart" lightbulbs, vacuum robots and smartwatches and all of these go out of their way to lock these down and force their shitty and buggy and probably illegal spyware on me.

I'm honestly asking why this is the default. What do the companies have to lose in people making their products suck less?

>>jampek+Fe
Its all about control. Easy to customize, easy to integrate means that you need to spend more time on these tasks and you can't just remove, change anything without thinking about influence of this change on customization and integration.

Basically - customization and integration is a limiting factors and whats the point to have these limits when customization and integration is not your goal?