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Re:Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch by VBprogrammer on Thursday August 29, 2024 @07:52AM (#41389846)
Locking in the model numbers for me is particularly icky. They are leveraging the Android and therefore Linux and open source communities efforts to make this custom display which would have cost them an arm and a leg to have custom built with half the features - then turning around and sticking two fingers up at those communities.
Re:Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch by yuye on Thursday August 29, 2024 @09:13PM (#41396936)
This is the least surprising things to me, as this happens all the time.

Straight out of Microsoft's playbook.