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Smart Devices Achilles Heel
Episode 17th January 2026 • User Friendly Flash Briefing • User Friendly Media Group, Inc.
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Speaker:

Hi, this is Bill Sikkens, host of User

Friendly 2.0 Saturdays

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here on The Answer

with this week's Tech Wednesday.

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It's been in the news

that a company called Arcade

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One up is probably shutting down,

with another company

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getting a lot of their assets fine.

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And this company manufactures replicas of

old arcade cabinets for use in the home.

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These were never meant

to be used in an arcade,

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but if you want an original Pac-Man

to buy, these cost less.

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They're easier to come by and are reliable

because they're new technology.

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But in with all of these things,

there's a lot of products that they have

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that require apps or servers to operate.

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And when a company like this goes away,

what happens to all of that?

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Does your device break?

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This week on User Friendly 2.0, we're

going to be talking about these topics

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not just with arcade one up,

but in general,

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because what happens if you buy

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a smart device and the app goes away

or it's no longer supported?

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There are some cases where you can work

around it and some that you can't.

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Join us Saturday

here on The Answer for User

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Friendly 2.0

or check us out a userfriendly.show.

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