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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] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The subscription fee will only apply to people who make an account after August 21. Those who downloaded the app and made an account before August 21 won't have to pay. But everyone will have to make an account; some people have been using the app without one until now.

"You helped us build Anova, and our intent is that you will be grandfathered in forever," Svajian wrote

Fuck everything about this, but at least they have the decency not to pull the rug on people who bought it without this stupidity.

The only real benefit of the app to me is the push notifications, but losing those would be douchey. It would be far better to allow that basic functionality and put all the recipe shit behind the wall.