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[โ€“] Hogger85b@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obviously giving away the temp sensor is probably used as seed for security module

While that is an interesting idea I suspect the actual reason is their efforts to get it FDA certified as a medical device (which still hasn't happened). The current app makes it abundantly clear it is not currently certified and a third party app claiming otherwise might be a liability concern.