A new way of parental control
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How does it work when off? And if it works when off, why not just do that instead of having the device?
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Ah, this is how they do it:
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Built with teens in mind.
Worried about Circle being unplugged? Not to worry. Circle has a battery. Couldn’t they just remove it from the home? Or just plain turn it off? Not without you getting a notification right away. As you can see, we’ve got you covered parents. -
Only works with Apple devices... lol
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@DustinB3403 said:
Only works with Apple devices... lol
I think it works with any device, but can only be configured on iOS.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Only works with Apple devices... lol
Can you read before you jump to conclusions?
It works with any wireless device. The management application is an iOS application only right now.
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@BRRABill or wrap it in aluminum foil to keep it from connecting to the wifi.
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@BRRABill said:
@DustinB3403 said:
Only works with Apple devices... lol
I think it works with any device, but can only be configured on iOS.
@JaredBusch said:
@DustinB3403 said:
Only works with Apple devices... lol
Can you read before you jump to conclusions?
It works with any wireless device. The management application is an iOS application only right now.
Hence it only works with Apple.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Hence it only works with Apple.
Semantics. Defines works. LOL.
I guess if you don't have an iOS device, you could borrow one to configure it, then never have to access it again.
Though if there is a lot of interaction with it, that is indeed a pretty odd limitation.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@BRRABill said:
@DustinB3403 said:
Only works with Apple devices... lol
I think it works with any device, but can only be configured on iOS.
@JaredBusch said:
@DustinB3403 said:
Only works with Apple devices... lol
Can you read before you jump to conclusions?
It works with any wireless device. The management application is an iOS application only right now.
Hence it only works with Apple.
That's like saying that a car doesn't work with children because it requires an adult to operate it. The product works with whatever, it just is managed from a single platform. Annoying, but it doesn't change what it works with. If you apply this to other scenarios, you can't use "works" in this way.
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@BRRABill said:
@DustinB3403 said:
Hence it only works with Apple.
Semantics. Defines works. LOL.
I guess if you don't have an iOS device, you could borrow one to configure it, then never have to access it again.
Though if there is a lot of interaction with it, that is indeed a pretty odd limitation.
It's a crappy limitation, but unless the goal of the device is to be managed and not to be parental controls, it's not limited to iOS.
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The product is a very limited device, currently designed to only be managed from an Apple device makes it worthless to me. We don't own or like apple products in our house.
Something that is currently locked into a single manufacture platform makes it useless to me.
It only works, when you're attempting to manage it from an apple device.
I won't be posting to this topic any more.. starting to get a bit upset.
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@DustinB3403 said:
The product is a very limited device, currently designed to only be managed from an Apple device makes it worthless to me. We don't own or like apple products in our house.
Something that is currently locked into a single manufacture platform makes it useless to me.
It only works, when you're attempting to manage it from an apple device.
I won't be posting to this topic any more.. starting to get a bit upset.
I get that it is very limiting. But once set up it "works" with all devices. Yes you have to set it up in one way, but you don't refer to things as "working" or "not working" based on the setup. Like we say "You have to set that up before it will work." So the setup requires iOS it seems, okay. that's annoying and limiting. But once setup it works with everything. The "thing that it does", the "reason that you buy it" are not in any way limited to iOS.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Something that is currently locked into a single manufacture platform makes it useless to me.
But not from working, only from being setup. Yes, you have to set it up to work, but if someone set this up for you, it would work. If I got this for someone in my family and set it up for them, it would work even though they own no iOS devices, for example. Lots of things in IT like that.
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Sorry, but I agree with @DustinB3403 . That's a huge product fail if you can only configure it on iOS. They shouldn't have released the device if it wasn't configurable by the majority of devices (iOS, Android, and Windows). There is really no reason, that they couldn't do this on a responsive web interface that would work with all 3 IMO.
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@scottalanmiller it is also clearly stated on their website that they want their Android out soon.
@DustinB3403 is hating just to hate on Apple.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller it is also clearly stated on their website that they want their Android out soon.
I figured that they were not doing some weird Apple promotion and just hitting low hanging fruit first to get the product out and onto the market.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller it is also clearly stated on their website that they want their Android out soon.
@DustinB3403 is hating just to hate on Apple.
It seems ridiculous that can't make a responsive website that would work with all devices. Limiting yourself to less than half the market is a bad ploy.
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@IRJ said:
Sorry, but I agree with @DustinB3403 . That's a huge product fail if you can only configure it on iOS. They shouldn't have released the device if it wasn't configurable by the majority of devices (iOS, Android, and Windows). There is really no reason, that they couldn't do this on a responsive web interface that would work with all 3 IMO.
It is about speed to market. They chose the easy solution to get on the market as fast as possible.
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@IRJ said:
Sorry, but I agree with @DustinB3403 . That's a huge product fail if you can only configure it on iOS. They shouldn't have released the device if it wasn't configurable by the majority of devices (iOS, Android, and Windows).
It's pretty strong to say what they "should do". If they want to market to IT people, yes, they should do that I suppose. But they are not. If you have to put in an IP address into a browser you are likely too complicated for non-IT folks. I think that that is likely a bad idea. Drobo doesn't do that either, but we don't regularly complain about that as a show stopped. They don't do it because it would raise the cost because that requires more overhead and makes security more difficult.
It's a consumer, not an IT, product. Nothing wrong, in fact it is very smart, to get a product out the door and designed for end users to use if end users are your audience.
