No, it just made me laugh, thinking we might be thought of similar to Darth Vader saying "come to the dark side" or something like that. A proprietary product is not inherently evil or deceptive. Would it be reasonable to get mad at GM because you can't take your Chevy to a Ford dealer for parts and warranty service? I don't think we're much different than a typical car brand - unique and with some proprietary aspects.
But my main point is we are not tricking anyone or pushing them into our walled garden. Our products sell themselves on their own merits. For one thing, we do have a fairly unique product, and our wireless technology is in some ways even superior to the nearest equivalent, LoRaWAN. It would be one thing if we went out of our way to make a WiFi-based sensor proprietary, but it's a very different animal, already. And, had we chosen to be just a sensor manufacturer, I think we'd be a very different company, disconnected from the end-user, chasing the next order for 100,000 units, products commoditized and end-user customers marginalized. But instead, we are about providing a service and an ecosystem of products, where end-user customer feedback and purchasing trends determine our next products, and those products lead to new customers, and so on. Like GM or Ford, I guess.
We are going to make an offline hub with local control, but it's for a relatively niche market segment (most people don’t want to roll-their-own smart home). The current business model is for the most part the norm and I think it is a mutually-beneficial one for us and our customers. Oh, it’s worth pointing out we will be producing dual-network devices that work on Helium as well as our network. That’s not “walled garden” at all.
I was not laughing at anyone, I almost posted a GIF of Vader, actually; I was just amused by YoLink being characterized as tricking anyone into getting into a negative company/customer relationship. It's not like that.
