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.”

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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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100% predictable. Every time a Valley idiot °pivots° or « disrupts° they’re wasting private money that would be better used in the public sector. Not that you have a public sector in the states.
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Y'know what, if there is any upside to the current economic climate, it might be that some of these tech startups actually learn the hard way that if your product is shitty, and your business model isn't profitable, then if the VC money dries up, so do you
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Do Arlo next
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How long until
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wow this is garbage. stallman was right
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Only because they “require” a central “cloud service”. Which is generally pointless, I guess they were wanting some of that sweet data sales money.
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Also explains why wink is on owner #3 (will.i.am’s i.am+ co)
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Whats vc money?
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What shits me, though, is that home automation IoT *should be free to run*, because it *should be peer to peer*. It is intentionally designed not to be.
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