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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 17 points 7 months ago

By killing the product completely they're forcing their users to upgrade. It's always profits man, that's always the reason

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

It's called "planned obsolescence".

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 7 months ago

Not even planned obsolescence... It's just "hey, you guys aren't buying our slightly better new version. We were talking today about how to make a little bit more money, and we decided, hey, we don't want to maintain this anymore. We also don't want to unlock it and let someone else take over, and while we're at it let's just start shutting off features until you buy a new one. Because fuck you"

[-] Kir@feddit.it 1 points 7 months ago

I know. I was saying that is so unreasonable that they shouldn't be allowed to do it.

That said. I hope people are not so stupid to trust Meta with an upgrade after something like that.

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