Here's an idea: people who aren't happy that this company is turning their devices into e-waste could send them back to Wink's headquarters to deal with it: Wink Labs 606 W 28th St, Floor 7 New York, NY 10001 United States

Lesson learned: If a product, in order to function, requires access to a machine that I do not own, I do not buy the product.

They designed this fee to be as modest as possible

@TheWinkApp I have an amazing rebranding idea for you: Wank! 🤯

I suspect that the FTC will get involved, because this is effectively removing a feature from the product that customers have already bought. And it's different than deprecating support (at least on its face) because the devices are clearly still supported and capable.

When you have free competing services from Google, Apple and Amazon, I doubt wink will survive charging users.

I replied my frustrations in an response to the notification they sent and told them my Samsung smart things is on is way to and they shove the wink blue light where the sun don’t shine. They disconnected my HUB yesterday

Vera for Zwave and other devices, Philips Hue, I have xTension that talks all kinds of stuff from a Mac server. Your Wink proprietary devices are probably locked in. The home assistants like Amazon Echo and Google Nest Home do need the cloud.

I hope you just missed the context and aren't being wilfully pedantic. A more relevant observation would relate to Internet connected cars, rather than equating a single server with multiple networks of petroleum distribution.