cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/21524474
Smart display will soon default to showing ads after three hours.
Fuck Amazon, but also fuck journalists who abuse words: bricking is not a synonym for “removing”
It would be a shame if people hacked their devices and loaded whatever they wanted on them.
No!
That means people are still buying and using the device. This is a case for returning the product to Amazon/the store you brought it from citing the product is no longer fit for purpose because of changes made by the seller/manufacturer. If you live in a sensible country (sorry US) this should work.
This only stops if there is a clear and attributable loss of sales/increase in returns.
The class action suit against Sony for removing Linux from the PS3 really showed them.
What was the payout, $5 per owner?
Its not about getting money. Its about, in that case Sony geting a clear “this decision cost us money”.
While I agree with you, they consider it the cost of doing business. That’s why the Ford Pinto was allowed to go to market when Ford knew it was deadly. They ran the numbers and decided they would make more money selling the car as is and paying the lawsuit.
We really need to start making the payouts (and thereby the actual cost of such class action lawsuits) more expensive. I believe class action suits are capped and I’m really starting to think that’s what we should be targeting.
That class action judgment was essentially a fee.
Fines that don’t take a significant proportion of a corporation’s yearly income until they unfuck whatever they did are just fees, they’re not effective.
Yeah I mean I wouldn’t buy one and I would encourage others not to. But if you already have it and can’t return it, make it your device, not theirs.
Wait, they were charging $2 a month to unlock the ability to turn your device into a smart picture frame when idle? Something that doesn’t even require to be online and that you could easily convert an old tablet to do for free?
If you were stupid enough to give your money away for a subscription fee for that, then the “service” being discontinued is the best thing that could have happened to you.
Also this sort of practice should be made illegal.
Why illegal? Makes more sense than to buy an extra device, not just ecologically. Hardly anyone is able to convert a tablet, most people are simply too dumb, to put it simply
I meant illegal to force a subscription fee to use something that doesn’t require any external service to function. Also illegal to turn something that someone had already bought to display pictures in his house into an advertising billboard without their consent.
This is why you don’t buy shit that is will not work unless it is unnecessarily connected to the internet.
Then make that illegal: Unnecessary Internet connections.
I don’t understand why people buy this crap in the first place
Amazon deserves being called out for this kind of ridiculous service: paying every month so that a device you brought don’t nag you with ads.
I get that a company would show ads in their newspaper, video streaming, or online service to make producing the content financially viable. But ads on a device people buy to display their own family pictures is ridiculous. Whoever thought people would welcome this idea lacks common sense.
