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Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year
(arstechnica.com)
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
Not sure who you think you are advising here, but I suspect Amazon is making sure their echo devices are on the high end of security, any vulnerability will get a lot of press attention.
For Home Assistant and other more open devices this is the problem, you either accept a lot of tinkering ensuring it’s updated, working and secure, or it fails the wife/parent test.
Apple, Google or Amazon devices are just too easy in comparison, but you have to put up with the intrusion and ads.
A lot more people are willing to sacrifice data and adverts for convenience.
Everyone is finding out the hard way that it is a lot worse than some ads.
What has happened?