You bought the hardware. Now you’ll need to subscribe for “expanded access” to the most advanced features.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260702094727/https://www.wired.com/story/why-meta-is-charging-a-subscription-for-on-device-smart-glasses-features/
We finally awake now? Will we stop buying dumbing tech from scammers? How much more restricted do our lives need to get before we finally say no more?
Not enough people using these for that to be the case. Needs to be something the vast majority of people rely on daily for the pleebs to start realizing what that smell is.
Another problem is that the youngest today will never know ownership just subscriptions, so why fight something when you never knew there was an alternative.
Yeah, like with personal motor vehicles.
You all remember when it turned out leaded gasoline and tire dust were poisoning everyone and the cities filled with smog and noise pollution and commute times increased because everything had to be further apart for parking lots and arterial roads and traffic jams and entire neighborhoods were demolished and millions of businesses went bankrupt because foot traffic died out because all the cars and asphalt made it intolerable to be outside a car and children became unable to safely play outside and sedatery lifestyles lead to obesity and a massive loss of people’s ability to just do physical things and everybody’s lives noticeably got worse over a single lifetime, that people rebelled and stopped the motor industry?