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Also note that if you buy a Tin Can unit, there's a noncompete clause: You agree not to "build, benchmark, or develop a competing product or service." So don't buy this if you work for a telco, or a voice communications service of any kind.


This is laughably unenforceable, and all the more ridiculous for it.


If a company puts unenforceable terms in their TOS, how likely are they to comply with the law in every other matter? No way would I give my kid a device made by these people for that reason.


Fair point, and totally agreed.

I literally LOLed at the idea that purchasing a consumer product, at retail, could include stipulations on my future employment. And at the hubris of any manufacturer for imagining they could get away with such an absurd idea.


Oh no, how dare I checks stand up a VoIP ATA and plug a phone into it. I'll be waiting to hear from their legal team.




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