It should be illegal to retroactively take back features from products that you've already sold, regardless of whether the feature was advertised or how buggy it is.
At least users can go back to older firmware and get 5.0 back.
There was a story not long ago about some exercise equipment (I think) that remotely bricked the devices (when the company was being shutdown or something) though they could have worked offline just fine without that final update.
It should be illegal to retroactively take back features from products that you've already sold, regardless of whether the feature was advertised or how buggy it is.
At least users can go back to older firmware and get 5.0 back.
There was a story not long ago about some exercise equipment (I think) that remotely bricked the devices (when the company was being shutdown or something) though they could have worked offline just fine without that final update.
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