The reality though is that an event that took out the internet would take out lots of other stuff.
It doesn't even have to be as extreme as that. If the device depends on "the cloud" (e.g. some company's servers), your device is useless once those servers are shut down. A good example of this actually happening is Zeo, they made a sleep monitoring device that was much more capable than all the fitbit garbage we're left with. Unfortunately they went out of business, their servers were shutdown, and their devices became useless to anyone who couldn't do a fair amount of hacking.
Companies going out of business or discontinuing products is a common occurrence. Products should be designed to be tolerant to those failures.
Or even just temporary problems with your ISP or local internet.
Somebody took out a local connection with a backhoe? There go your TV/movies, Xbox One, VOIP phone, security cameras (if you've got the GP's system), etc.
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It doesn't even have to be as extreme as that. If the device depends on "the cloud" (e.g. some company's servers), your device is useless once those servers are shut down. A good example of this actually happening is Zeo, they made a sleep monitoring device that was much more capable than all the fitbit garbage we're left with. Unfortunately they went out of business, their servers were shutdown, and their devices became useless to anyone who couldn't do a fair amount of hacking.
Companies going out of business or discontinuing products is a common occurrence. Products should be designed to be tolerant to those failures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeo,_Inc.#Out_of_business
Or even just temporary problems with your ISP or local internet.
Somebody took out a local connection with a backhoe? There go your TV/movies, Xbox One, VOIP phone, security cameras (if you've got the GP's system), etc.