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Amazon accuses customer of racism & shuts down their smart home!
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PlainName:

--- Quote ---only subscribe to services you're ready to be cut of off at any point with no, or only minor consequences
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Ideally, yes, but these things tend to escalate and before you know it you're relying on something you found useful after you started using it.
Marco:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on June 16, 2023, 09:58:24 pm ---They are basically acting as companies that are near-monopolies

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When you are an also-ran up against the greatest Trust in history, that's a really dangerous way to act.

Amazon is just going to drive all its customers to Apple as far as home automation is concerned ... and hell, maybe Apple will decide it wants to do groceries and appliances too, then they'll just take it all. Amazon is on thin ice.
PlainName:

--- Quote ---Amazon is just going to drive all its customers to Apple as far as home automation is concerned
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Doubt it - if you're not in the Apple ecosystem then switching your life to learn, and put up with, Apple's diktats is a step too far just to be able to turn a lamp on or off. Amazon is a minnow, piggy-backing on the actual providers like ewelink and tuya.
james_s:

--- Quote from: Marco on June 17, 2023, 12:00:44 pm ---Amazon is just going to drive all its customers to Apple as far as home automation is concerned ... and hell, maybe Apple will decide it wants to do groceries and appliances too, then they'll just take it all. Amazon is on thin ice.

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Apple is no better than Amazon really, and a lot less popular as far as I've seen. I know loads of people with Amazon devices, a handful with Google devices, but zero with any Apple home automation stuff. It's every bit as proprietary as everything else on the market, arguably more so. As I've mentioned before, I quite like my employer issued Macbook but I would never spend my own money on one and get locked into such a limited ecosystem. I like my iPhone for the most part but there are many things that annoy me about it, primarily the inability to roll back any updates, neither the OS nor apps, I have been burned enough times by updates breaking something that I no longer allow anything on my phone to update ever unless I am completely forced into it and I hate being forced. It's less a matter of which mobile platform I like more and more a case of which one I hate less.
tszaboo:
Follow-up from Louis Rossmann:
Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for "racist doorbell"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcohq313q00&t=237s

He didn't bow to our corporate overlords.
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