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Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Bezier@suppo.fi to c/internetofshit@suppo.fi

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/21524474

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It would be a shame if people hacked their devices and loaded whatever they wanted on them.

[–] groet 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No!

That means people are still buying and using the device. This is a case for returning the product to Amazon/the store you brought it from citing the product is no longer fit for purpose because of changes made by the seller/manufacturer. If you live in a sensible country (sorry US) this should work.

This only stops if there is a clear and attributable loss of sales/increase in returns.

[–] troed@fedia.io 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The class action suit against Sony for removing Linux from the PS3 really showed them.

What was the payout, $5 per owner?

[–] groet 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Its not about getting money. Its about, in that case Sony geting a clear "this decision cost us money".

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

While I agree with you, they consider it the cost of doing business. That's why the Ford Pinto was allowed to go to market when Ford knew it was deadly. They ran the numbers and decided they would make more money selling the car as is and paying the lawsuit.

We really need to start making the payouts (and thereby the actual cost of such class action lawsuits) more expensive. I believe class action suits are capped and I'm really starting to think that's what we should be targeting.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

That class action judgment was essentially a fee.

Fines that don't take a significant proportion of a corporation's yearly income until they unfuck whatever they did are just fees, they're not effective.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah I mean I wouldn't buy one and I would encourage others not to. But if you already have it and can't return it, make it your device, not theirs.