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I'm an embedded systems student and this makes me sad and angry.

I worked with software update mechanisms and they are an essential part of every IoT product. They are needed to supply the product with security updates and consumers should be trained to allow for automatic updates as maintaining 20 devices is not something your average user will do manually. Or at least to install updates when they come along.

This just fucks the consumer as it includes a massive inconvenience. What's going to happen? They won't install the update as they don't want shit forced down their throat. But the bad taste stays, and instead of installing a risky update on other devices or investing the time researching, the consumers will just keep them at the current software state.

Thanks Netgear for fucking a whole industry.