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Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch (www.theverge.com)
submitted 5 months ago by jeffw to c/technology
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[–] Cornpop 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Should be required to open source it and unlock everything before sunsetting products.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] eyeon 2 points 5 months ago

Before launching products*

walled gardens are only a little less awful when still supported