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Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 149 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Wait

"Our community has literally cooked 100s of millions of times with our app. Unfortunately, each connected cook costs us money."

The cooker, It's FUCKING Bluetooth. It doesn't need to call home, it can't call home. The App, It has a list of 35 different sous vide recipes that could live on the app. The app has no business calling home, they don't need a server.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And if each did cost them money - they’ve been paid when the stupid thing was purchased!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, it's a $200 heater. Probably $30 in parts. You can run a small cluster for the profit in a few sales a month.

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