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Welcome to the “brand new world” of IOT hardware where you are the product and continued service depends entirely on how you can be monetized.

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I’m assuming it runs on AI and the company has to provide the backend. So yeah, if you purchase something that requires a company’s infrastructure, it can certainly be bricked.

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Self-hosting makes more sense every day.

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Which is why you should only buy stuff that relies on local APIs and on board processing.

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99.99% of the people willing to buy an emotional support robot for their children will have no idea what the words you said even mean.

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