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Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after release
- reaperman 2y agoThey are refunding everyone though, so that’s good. But as these were marketed to businesses so significant staff time was likely spent on integration.
- guywithahat 2y agoThe fact they're closing the Astro business branch suggests hardly anyone must have bought them. It sounds like they're continuing to make the robots though, just for home consumers instead, which sounds like a more difficult market to me but who knows
- big-green-man 2y agoIf a product you buy relies on active participation by the producer in order to continue working, youre not buying a product, youre buying a service. The refund makes me wonder, wouldn't it be cheaper for Amazon to discontinue support for the devices but give people the resources to keep using them and running them on their own? There's obviously some other calculus here, it's worth it to them to pay back every penny they took in, because maintaining control of the "product" for some future endeavor is Kore profitable. I wonder what their plans are.