Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib for crying babies

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• dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why the hell do rockers need subscription services? This should be illegal. A rocker, which has absolutely zero maintenance upkeep from the company, should not be gouging their customers for money to use features they’ve already paid for.

  No, I get it. CapITaLiSm. That’s why this is posted here. Yes, the above is rhetorical. It still pisses me off. I don’t typically advocate violence, but the people who made this business decision need to go take a very long walk off a short pier, with cinder blocks chained around their throats.

  My apologies. I needed to vent. Carry on.

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  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Pitchfork and Torches

    They don’t work without a subscription.

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    • GiveOver@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Luckily I’m still on my family’s ForkPitch plan. Let me know if you want to sign up for Torchee, I have a referral code

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    • TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Now I’m just picturing a mob’s torches and pitchforks going limp in their hands

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    • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t mine for the Gold Rush, sell the diggers their tools

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  • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hate how much unusable waste these devices produce.

    These things could stay in the secondhand market for years and years, instead they’re made unusable and end up in the trash.

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  • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    While I agree, it’s a smart device, and servers aren’t free

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    • Nomad@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Welp… Smart designer wouldn’t even have included a server. Bluetooth connection to the crib would have been enough. If it needs an app at all… Our motorized crib hat buttons you know. You are not gonna operate that thing remotely anyways.

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    • daq@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It really isn’t unless they changed since we used it 5 years ago. It just had a microphone and went through several levels of rocking based on how much sound mics picked up. It worked whether it was connected or not. Internet was just for notifications. Your baby screaming is usually a pretty clear notification.

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    • Tinidril@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Doesn’t seem all that smart to me. Does the company offer an API to the device so consumers can write their own “server”? No, I’m sure they have it locked down behind some proprietary encryption scheme so that anyone who tries can be charged with violating the digital millennium copywrite act.

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    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      and servers aren’t free

      Since when do cribs need a fucking server to rock?

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    • eskimofry@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are you really smart if you need mommy server to function?

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• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just another company taking part in the worldwide subscription model scam.

  Here’s another one: LynkD. I had a few of their NFC padlocks. They’re not particularly well made, nor are they particularly secure, but they’re convenient and I like them to secure low-importance things like my gym locker or the shed at the back of my garden.

  I wanted to buy more. LynkD informed me that the padlocks now require a subscription.

  Yes, you read that right: a fucking PADLOCK now requires a subscription.

  The mind boggles…

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not only a subscription but one at an absolutely rip off price. Flat. Monthly cost, PLUS per device PLUS per user fees?

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    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re going for property managers who can claim expenses.

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  at this point, anyone who buys any online “smart” object is in doing so proving that they are not.

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  • Persen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are also bluetooth smart objects which are not much better (smartwatches, etc), but at least we have gadgetbridge.

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• pjwestin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unrelated to the fuckery of this, the only advice I give to expecting parents is, “don’t spend a lot of money solving problems you don’t know you’ll have.” Everyone wants to tell you about some product that was super important to their infant, but babies are all different, and your kid might not need what they used. We nearly spent $300 on a fancy bottle warmer, and it turned out our baby liked cold milk. You don’t want to spend $1,7000 on a bassinet only to find out your kid is an easy sleeper.

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• bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  locked behind subscription paywalls, the New York Times reports.

  And that’s irony.

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Right when you think that Snoop isn’t such a gangster after all.

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  • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The product is called Snoo. That’s not a typo. This has nothing to do with the sellout named Snoop Dogg.

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    • daddy32@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Trump’s sellout.

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