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0 pointsrobbedpeter4y ago0 comments

They should fire the individuals responsible and blast that news to the world, and focus on providing a device that doesn't become yet another wallet sucker. If they don't, they won't even be a footnote in gadget history. e-ink screens are becoming accessible, patents are expiring, and sbcs and socs are becoming trivial to develop with.

As-a-service models are rent seeking grift and doomed to failure once a sufficient portion of the population becomes tech literate.

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sofixa4y ago

> As-a-service models are rent seeking grift and doomed to failure once a sufficient portion of the population becomes tech literate

I don't think the tech literacy in western countries will change much. And it has nothing to do with the as-a-service model, which makes a lot of sense in many scenarios, on both the seller's side (predictable cashflow, finances updating old(er) software instead of churning new services/products that need to sell) and the buyers' ( you know you keep getting updates and the provider can't just not fix a serious issue). Why wouldn't a cloud sync service be as a service? You're literally paying for an ongoing thing ( storage somewhere).

nottorp4y ago

> Why wouldn't a cloud sync service be as a service? You're literally paying for an ongoing thing ( storage somewhere).

Reminder: they want you to pay for using someone else's storage that you've already paid for. Namely Dropbox.

If they just offered their own cloud sync service for a subcription, as opposed to hiding all useful features behind it, nobody would have complained.

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