Neato's Early Cloud Service Exit – Robots Will Only Work in Manual Mode
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Neato's announcement that their cloud services will shut down, rendering some of their robots non-functional beyond manual mode, has sparked concerns about IoT device longevity and planned obsolescence.
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Pretty sad to see, that the hardware loses so much functionality, "just" because the cloud services are not available anymore. Would have been a nice move, if they at least provided some sort of access to the robot / self hosted solution.