Wow. The Peloton Tread will no longer allow you to use your $3000 treadmill without a $39.99 a month subscription.
The pretext is their design issues that led to a child’s death.
Hope reporters will cover this.
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2/ Good news everyone!
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PC Magazine writer @Michael_Kan traded emails with @onepeloton and got straight answers.
They do plan to reenable your ability to use your treadmill to “Just Run” with no subscription.
I have to assume public pressure is why they made the commitment.
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That doesn’t make sense to me. How could they patch an update to lock the ability to “just run” if they can’t patch it to have the safety update?
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right... because a subscription will totally keep your child off the treadmill.
i'm *totally* sure it's not because a subscription will cover their liability insurance cost. no, that would be evil...
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Probably worse then you imagine— I suspect the terms and conditions you sign up for the subscription waives their liability for harming users entirely.
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Echelon is only slightly less aggro about this. I imagine they don't have the balls (market share) to be as outright about it.
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not even sure how this is legal in 2021...property licensing/ownership is an entire clusterfuck in this country...been doing a lot of legal research about property/ip licensing for work...this is a big deal...
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Is the hardware also pointlessly overbuilt so they lose money even at the absurd price they want?
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