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Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app(arstechnica.com)

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chilicheeselies@lemmy.world
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I bet the app requires cloud hosting for it to run, and its starting to eat away at the profits they made.

If it needs nothing but bluetooth, then this a pure money grab.

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frezik@midwest.social
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Usually, if it needs cloud hosting, it’s because they’re collecting your data. That presumably is a revenue stream for them.

I have one of these, and I haven’t touched the app. Works perfectly fine without it.

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HonkyTonkWoman@lemm.ee
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It use to operate only off of Bluetooth, & then they added single band WiFi. They just added dual band WiFi as a new feature & are now removing Bluetooth functionality completely.

Absolutely a cash grab.

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