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Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch
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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2024
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We need laws that make this illegal. I get it that they don’t want to support it for whatever reason, but electronic waste is already a big problem and you can’t convince me everyone is recycling their used electronics.
Amazon did this with their cloud security cameras as well.
Spotify did it with their "Car thing"
It's common and I agree, should be illegal.
Should be required to open source it and unlock everything before sunsetting products.
This is what gets me. Why don’t they do this? They’re turning down profit by discontinuing support, but probably their logic is someone else will benefit from the hardware without bringing in profit, so that’s bad forsomefucking reason.