Years after people bought it, smart home platform Wink is demanding $4.99 a month from users or it'll stop working theverge.com/2020/5/6/212499…

Smart home platform Wink will require a monthly subscription starting next week

“This fee is designed to be as modest as possible.”

theverge.com

May 7, 2020 · 2:43 AM UTC

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Covid-19 is awful, but this is the second smart device company that's shown its hand: the internet of things isn't free to run, and now that the VC money has vanished, we're finally seeing that
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hell, same
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Hell NO! That’s totally F&@wked up! We are already paying so much for subscriptions . We don’t need another one. Wink will go down in history becuase their technology is outdated. Heck they don’t even respond to you from 5 years ago to about a few several weeks ago. Shmdh
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My #1 rule is not to buy Home Automation that won't work without the cloud. I dumped Wink for that very reason
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"Stop, Dave." in a T-Shirt.
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This is why hacking exists. Also, this is why i'm not against the death penalty.
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In theory, there’s nothing wrong with that. Had they done it 2+ years ago, before the service went completely to pot, I’d have been happy to pay $5/month. But not now. And not in the next week to prevent my hub from being bricked. Time to move on.
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It's not Wink iot it's ransomware it winking to you
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Any news on rooting wink2?
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On a related note, difficult to purchase smartthings except from resellers on Amazon at an inflated price.
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And another case for: „this stuff should be open source“ and „design the end from the start“ to earn some trust @thingscon
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