My plumber would love this stuff. He's always complaining about tools going walking and anything that helps stop that is a win.

Better way to keep tools for a long time is not to borrow your tools.

Or lose access to it because google canceled your account for some reason.

You have remote kill and upgrade in your mobile phone, did you get rid of your phone?

You can disable it, and anyway a phone is a different sort of product. It's a computer product with a local interface (making this stuff easy to administrate) and is usually a lot more costly.

I think what the parent is expressing is that they don't want this kind of functionality in everything, requiring constant management of all the DRM in all kinds of everyday items. Too much of a hassle for little benefit.