Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after release

Re:Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after re... by foxylad on Sunday July 07, 2024 @08:48PM (#40901716)

Amazon could reduce this PR disaster by organising to give returned Astros to school programming clubs. Along with a way to hack the firmware, of course.

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Re:Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after re... by noisy_boy on Sunday July 07, 2024 @08:53PM (#40901753)

The kids would probably be more successful in figuring out innovative usages for the product.

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Re:Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after re... by ysacfanboi on Sunday July 07, 2024 @08:49PM (#40901727)

BTW, if you can hack Astro, you can hack Alexa...

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Re:Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after re... by Eduard on Sunday July 07, 2024 @09:17PM (#40901863)

... elaborate...

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Re:Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after re... by shermantanktop on Sunday July 07, 2024 @10:59PM (#40902259)

Don’t hold your breath. Unsubstantiated nudge-wink claims like this are the province of high school kids and blowhards.

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Re:Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after re... by ysacfanboi on Saturday July 13, 2024 @01:55PM (#40955621)

My statement is most certainly factual. Don't assert what you don't know.

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Re:Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after re... by Finnucane on Sunday July 07, 2024 @08:52PM (#40901751)

Is it really a disaster? They cancelled a thing that most people probably didn't even know existed until yesterday. In that sense, it is like Google.

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