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Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots."

buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

This potential dilemma just further highlights that cloud-connected devices should be enhanced by connectivity, not reliant on it.

This should be everyone’s takeaway.

The problem isn’t the company possibly going out of business, its the loss of online service nerfing the device that is the real issue.

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ready_for_qa@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
We could have consumer protection laws that mandate when a service that a consumer product relies on is no longer being served by the company, they must release the source code as FOSS for the community to carry it on if they so chose. This could apply to video game servers as well as robot vacuums.

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- Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  We could, if someone cared to put in the effort to make that happen.
  
  Be that “someone” .
  
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