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Up next, Amazon announces that Bee devices will require a mandatory subscription starting immediately.
That was my first thought too.
I'm glad to live in a country where we shovel so much money to soulless corporations that they can enshittify everything in order to add to the wealth of people who will never live to spend it.
Or just pulls it from the market. Wouldn't be the first time a company acquires a competitor for the sole purpose of eliminating it.
Google <-> Fitbit
A microphone that the product user willingly carries around all day to record their actions, conversations, and (if given access) email etc. Of course Amazon want it. It's a privacy-busting, user metric/advertising wet dream in a wristband.
It’s the final frontier of data collection once they’ve hoovered up every bit of data they can from the Internet that isn’t already LLM generated.
Ftfy: Amazon acquires Bee to stifle competition.
Oh goddamnit, Amazon again.
This actually seems like an a good use of AI for mobile device use case.