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> Everything will just be Amazon at some point.

It is almost there. When AWS has a blip most of the popular apps/products stop working, including my Roomba

For Roomba specifically, this is not true. It doesn’t stop working.

The app stops working yes but there’s a button on the machine you can press to start a job.

It’s the same deal with my Anova sous vide circulator, my Nest etc. Their apps requires cloud access yes. But all of them can function without it.

source: Roomba 675 / Anova / Nest owner.

Why would your Roomba connect to anything? It's supposed to be an autonomous timed launch, so you don't even need to launch it.

That's just one way to use the Roomba, I don't think it's "supposed" to be anything. Most have an app that lets you press a button to start it, presumably that app and the base station all connect through AWS

If it's just a more convenient way to push a button on the Roomba (or avoid waiting for the timer) than the statement that a bunch of products stopped working was pretty misleading.

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