• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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.

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      3 months ago

      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

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        3 months ago

        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.