The story about Kondo and Miku has it's roots in IoT. There are dozens of companies that have had to turn off their servers due to expenses. Either the revenue model was missed or the hardware simply has reached end-of-life status. We all wish that the cloud services for these devices could go on indefinitely, but the default world will always trump digital devices and software. The only real work around is to set up personal servers that host the software for the devices, but then that removes the subscription revenue model from the parent company. Catch 22.
The story about Kondo and Miku has it's roots in IoT. There are dozens of companies that have had to turn off their servers due to expenses. Either the revenue model was missed or the hardware simply has reached end-of-life status. We all wish that the cloud services for these devices could go on indefinitely, but the default world will always trump digital devices and software. The only real work around is to set up personal servers that host the software for the devices, but then that removes the subscription revenue model from the parent company. Catch 22.