{"id":4810,"date":"2023-04-30T13:06:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T23:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=4810"},"modified":"2023-04-30T13:06:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T23:06:40","slug":"mobileviews-podcast-458-live-by-the-cloud-die-by-the-cloud-bricked-cloud-based-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/30\/mobileviews-podcast-458-live-by-the-cloud-die-by-the-cloud-bricked-cloud-based-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews Podcast 458: Live by the cloud, die by the cloud &#8211; bricked cloud-based hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MobileViews Podcast 458: Live by the cloud, die by the cloud -Bricking cloud-powered hardware\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=uzcph-13f6854-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=auto&#038;logo_link=episode_page&#038;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Happy <a href=\"http:\/\/militarybratsinc.org\/national-military-brats-day-initiative\/\">Military Brats Day<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/1801718\/windows-10-wont-receive-any-more-feature-updates.html\">Windows 10 won\u2019t receive any more feature updates<\/a><br \/>\nWindows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025<\/li>\n<li>Another cloud-dependent hardware product bites the dust<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/company-news\/amazon-halo-discontinued\">Our decision to wind down Amazon Halo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are fully refunding customer purchases made in the preceding 12 months, and we are supporting impacted employees.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning on August 1, 2023, Amazon Halo devices, and the Amazon Halo app, will no longer function.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MSN_Companion\">Service for MSN Companion shutdown October 2003<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2012\/smart-anymore-microsoft-watches-officially\/\">Microsoft SPOT watch service turned off Jan. 1, 2012<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/business\/pogoplug-unlimited-cloud-storage-service-is-shutting-down-on-september-28\/#:~:text=Cloud%20Engines%2C%20the%20company%20behind,storage%20tier%20on%20September%2028.\"> Pogoplug shut down Sept. 28, 2016<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I expect Google to do away with the Fitbit within the next 24 months. It has already removed features: 1) Fitbit Charge 5 lost the stair climbing counter that was in the Charge 4. 2) It shutdown the community driven daily challenges for groups this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Available via <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/listen?u=0&#038;gclid=COid8dLi6s0CFQrQfgodJ_8CsA&#038;gclsrc=ds#\/ps\/Ioaoswyblmdonyb42jg6stsl6om\">Google Music Podcasts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mobileviews.com-podcast\/id301171904?mt=2\">Apple iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\u201chttps:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/MobileViewscom-Podcast-Podcast\/B08K565TQS?qid=1640555789&#038;sr=1-1&#038;ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&#038;pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&#038;pf_rd_r=TXEJVWB2VW471GJ9XQQ0\u201d<\/a>MobileViews Podcast from Audible.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss: Happy Military Brats Day Windows 10 won\u2019t receive any more feature updates Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025 Another cloud-dependent hardware product bites the dust Our decision to wind down Amazon Halo We are fully refunding customer purchases made in the preceding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-1fA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4811,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810\/revisions\/4811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}