finally, home devices that only work if you pay the subscription fee forever and ever and ever

Jun 20, 2017 · 9:30 PM UTC

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We just had them on Cheddar
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Was it good? Would you connect up? 🤔
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nice the terms and conditions say you MUST update your devices when they feel like it or you break the contract
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on the plus side, this is the only IOT device company I’ve seen that has a long term business plan?
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“ok so that rental contract excludes electricity, gas and oh yeah you have to pay this fee to make your internet plugs work”
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Replying to @internetofshit
years from now, we'll be looking back wondering how we ever lived without a monthly subscription fee to work the thermostat
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Use your personal server including #mysql or #postgres on #RaspberryPi Very easy...
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Southwestern Bell used to lease rotary home phones.
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as if my house being one huge IoT device wasn't dangerous enough, they want me to pay them to be a middle man? hilarious
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Replying to @internetofshit @el_em
Or one could just stop being a lazy bastard, think about it a bit and turn things off and on manually.
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