They got another thing coming.īelow is a breakdown of the features of the subscription model that will become effective on October 2nd 2023: If they think this is going to be a smooth sailing transition on Oct 2nd. They will use it to try and make their tech better and collect analytics on studies of kids around the world. If even only grandfathered to current customers if that's how you want to play it.Īnd may I remind these pricks that it's my kid's data they are collecting - with or without my payment permission when the camera is in use. Sureīut real time features that display as the camera is live? Yeah, no those should 100% be available to us. I get wanting to charge for services that cost you to have upkeep in the cloud: data storage, remote access, data analytics. I doubt they want to go down that road, just ask internet service providers how much of a pain that is. After 3 years of subscriptions, I should be entitled to a new camera provided by them just like any other renting service. What these fucking pricks don't understand, if you're going to a rental service model, aka a subscription model, part of that is upkeep of the hardware. But the base feature stuff should still work, at least on local network as there's probably fail safes to make sure you can connect to the device even if they can't read it over the cloud.

It might cause an issue with data and analytics, and that's fair. This will likely delay any sort of premium feature push they want to make. Make sure you disable auto updates right now. Pro tip: Go into your app store and manage your device now. Their app is garbage enough that there's bound to be a way to do it. I'd rather spend my time trying to hack the fucking thing or building my own app to access the solution. If they think I'm going to pay money for an app that doesn't consistently work today and features that I should have as part of a base product, they are out of their fucking mind. Fuck sakes, why the hell is 2 way audio a feature you have to pay for? It's a functionality that exists from communicating with the product directly, not the cloud.

I mean that's what you paid premium money for this fucking product. I personally will not be paying for these services, especially the things in bold that 100% should absolutely be part of the free feature. For anyone interested and didn't receive the details, see the bottom of this message.

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