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Amazon ‘bricked’ older Fire TV Sticks to push users to buy new models: lawsuit (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Are you considering the fact that modern commercial software is a house of cards and everything has to be updated constantly to support everything else (app APIs) being updated constantly?

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Or just make your app so badly optimized that nothing other than the newest hardware can handle it!

    I have a Toshiba TV with the FireTV built in (terrible idea and I hate it now). The entire TV runs off an AMAZON OS and the crappiest app on the entire suite of apps I have is AMAZON TV. (caps for emphasis that Amazon sucks at their own apps on their own OS)

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