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I wonder how many fools are out there that will pay for this.
The same amount of fools who created the largest civilian surveillance network with Ring doorbells.
Too many, way, way too many,
I was never going to buy one of those, but now I have a second good reason to not want my conversations eavesdropped on
Well, once again a tech company gives a service I don’t care for and overhaul I don’t want and tries to charge a fee I won’t pay.
I suspect when this doesn’t do the numbers they want they’ll try adding a user fee to oxygen as a retaliation.
You should watch Spaceballs. They have Perri-Air.
And you could also look at the real world. We have boost air.
I am quite literally touching grass now, thank you very much.
Oh no! Where else will I find a Bluetooth speaker that also tells me the temperature outside?
Without datamining and that works out of the box? Please let us know when you find out.
I hope for one good thing to come out from all this AI madness : people might get used to pay for a service on the internet again. If this miraculously happens it could lead to people more cautiously choose services over quality instead of the one with darkest patterns.
One can still dream…
I wouldn’t get your hopes up too high.
You’re thinking like you are the customer and the customer is always right, so if you pay for a service it should provide you what you want, right?
This is not that scenario.
You are not the customer. You are a product that is being sold to advertisers. It does not matter if you also pay them money, you are still the product. If you pay them money on top of being sold then you are just an especially profitable product.
Paying them money will not cause you to cease being a product, no matter how much money you are willing to pay.
If you use a different company’s product that starts off with you being the customer, eventually, they will learn that they can make more money by selling you to other people, and they will.
If I have to pay to have my dots and ring, i will throw the shit out in the street
Edit: Yeah, I’m done with them anyways, they’re trash.
Looks like I’ll be selling the few Amazon Alexa-centric devices I’ve got.
Please don’t do that to other people…
Yeah nah, not gonna pay for that
Since it won’t come with my Prime sub, it’ll just get unplugged and thrown away.
Also, because the AI part.
Uhhh…it’s had AI backing it for most of the decade
And this is exact the reason I’m building a Home Assistant instance with local voice processing. Right now it takes a few seconds to process a request and take action on my crappy 1.8ghz laptop with only 4gb of RAM, but it basically does everything I use Alexa for. This announcement is just encouraging me to build a better server with an esp32 satellite.
I’m in the process of this now too. The only I need that I can’t figure out within home-assistant assist, is unit conversions. Converting measurements when cooking is one of the main thing we use the Alexa for these days.
I didn’t think people really expected to believe that their smart stuff was really theirs. Did they? Imagine renting your bulbs to Amazon.
Lmao, charge us for everything which was at first an incentive to buy your shit products
I will pay exactly zero dollars, thanks!
I wanna know how to flash the echoes to custom firmware. Then I’ll be set to migrate.
Watch the existing one become even more insufferable to push you into paying for the upgrade.
“Sorry, I don’t understand your question. Could you try again?”
Will the existing ones still operate without the subscription?
What do you think ^^
