Xatolos@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoStartup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refundsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square124fedilinkarrow-up1711arrow-down111cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
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minus-squareCorngood@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 days agoSurely in that case they could open their software so the community can figure out what it would take to keep it running.
minus-squareBakerBagel@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·12 days agoTheir creditors would sue because thats an asset that can be sold to refund them.
minus-squareCorngood@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoYeah, likely true without some sort of legislation. Well at least there’s a business opportunity for someone to reanimate these things and use them to push gacha games and energy drinks on the innocent children they’ve bonded with.
minus-squareTachyonTele@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·12 days agoI think at this point they have far more important things to worry about than that.
Surely in that case they could open their software so the community can figure out what it would take to keep it running.
Their creditors would sue because thats an asset that can be sold to refund them.
Yeah, likely true without some sort of legislation.
Well at least there’s a business opportunity for someone to reanimate these things and use them to push gacha games and energy drinks on the innocent children they’ve bonded with.
I think at this point they have far more important things to worry about than that.