Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app
Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app
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I bet the app requires cloud hosting for it to run, and its starting to eat away at the profits they made.
If it needs nothing but bluetooth, then this a pure money grab.
11 1 ReplyIt use to operate only off of Bluetooth, & then they added single band WiFi. They just added dual band WiFi as a new feature & are now removing Bluetooth functionality completely.
Absolutely a cash grab.
9 0 ReplyUsually, if it needs cloud hosting, it's because they're collecting your data. That presumably is a revenue stream for them.
I have one of these, and I haven't touched the app. Works perfectly fine without it.
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