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Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 50 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Moving previously free features of a product you've already paid for should be considered theft legally. Hopefully enough people in the EU complain about it for them to do something about it.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The problem with that is this is software. We've seen this before. If the EU complains they'll stop doing it... only in the EU. They'll continue the fuckery in the US because it's legal here.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If you read the announcement from them you will see that they are not moving previously free features to paid, all of the previously free features are still free, they are adding some new paid features.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Not moving any of the previously free features yet. Don't worry, it'll happen.

    The compute power behind their dumbass "AI" push that nobody wants will not be cheap, and when it inevitably fails to turn a profit (because we all know damn well it never will), they'll be looking for new ways to squeeze users for revenue.

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