Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year

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Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year
arstechnica.com

It’s pretty cool how things we purchase can just lose functionality at the drop of a hat.

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i'm sorry but if you were enough of a rube to sign up for a $2/mo subscription for that then this might be darwinistic capitalism

A lot of people really have a hard time parsing what they’re buying with digital products and I think it’s unfair to expect them to compete with international mega corporations that love to surprise folks with gated featured/subscriptions as you go “caveat emptor.”

Clearly not enough people were. I'm taking this as a W for the common man