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[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Why the hell do rockers need subscription services? This should be illegal. A rocker, which has absolutely zero maintenance upkeep from the company, should not be gouging their customers for money to use features they’ve already paid for.

No, I get it. CapITaLiSm. That’s why this is posted here. Yes, the above is rhetorical. It still pisses me off. I don’t typically advocate violence, but the people who made this business decision need to go take a very long walk off a short pier, with cinder blocks chained around their throats.

My apologies. I needed to vent. Carry on.

PS. This thing costs almost $1400 on Amazon, which is boasting a 20% discount, and the inventor Harvey Karp is complaining the company is not making enough money. You know who else is not making enough money right now? The Pitchfork and Torches store. That’s who.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

While I agree, it's a smart device, and servers aren't free

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

What fucking servers do an app and a Bluetooth enabled device need?

This is just bullshit rent seeking, and blaming it on "servers" is just a lazy excuse for the practice.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

Doesn't seem all that smart to me. Does the company offer an API to the device so consumers can write their own "server"? No, I'm sure they have it locked down behind some proprietary encryption scheme so that anyone who tries can be charged with violating the digital millennium copywrite act.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

at this point, anyone who buys any online "smart" object is in doing so proving that they are not.

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