Cloud-Based Smart Home Gadgets Keep Getting Bricked Because You No Longer Own What You Buy

Techdirt. 2022-09-02

Summary:

We’ve noted more times than I can count how you no longer really own the things you buy. Whether it’s smart home hardware, or routers that become useless paperweights when the manufacturer implodes, or post-purchase firmware updates that actively make your device less useful, you simply never know if the product you bought yesterday will […]

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https://www.techdirt.com/2022/09/02/cloud-based-smart-home-gadgets-keep-getting-bricked-because-you-no-longer-own-what-you-buy/

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Authors:

Karl Bode

Date tagged:

09/02/2022, 20:15

Date published:

09/02/2022, 15:32