I love when people get pissy about stuff like this. If you want it, great. If you don’t, buy other shoes or don’t use it.

What’s it going to do? Stop being a shoe if you don’t connect it to your phone?

Devices that can lock you out with their smart functionality and you don’t have a say in, I get. Things like the Roku TVs forcing new arbitration policies and ovens included with a house that have mandatory firmware updates.

But stuff like this? Who cares? It’s very useful to some people who want advanced gait tracking in the shoe, and it’s completely ignorable for everyone else.