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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

inspired by this post. the app was €300.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I once interviewed at a (very) big usenet provider. The job was perl, I knew perl, must be fun.

No.

The job was to implement the byzantine B.S. "discounts" and plan-pricing "deals" that the sales team came up with to most effectively screw the customer.

I declined.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My wife and I went all out for our first born and as a baby monitor we got a MIKU. It is able to track the baby's breathing without any accessories and one of the key reasons I chose MIKU was that even though it was expensive it did not have a subscription model. BECAUSE I FUCKING HATE SUBSCRIPTIONS. Fast forward to Summer of 2023 and MIKU went bankrupt. The company that bought them tried to salvage it by including a $10/month subscription for everything except for the main camera function (which they cannot legally remove). And the way they tried to enforce it is by pushing an app update that blocks said features. I just went on APK Mirror and downloaded the previous version and turned off auto updates. And everything works perfectly. Thank you android and thank you APK Mirror.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wish android natively has a roll back option to un-update apps... But that would be too user-friendly, I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

No, that would use up too much storage lol. Also, 99% of people don't update their apps manually, instead, they just let the Google Playstore handle it whenever it feels like it