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How it went, in order
From the first tethered device to right-to-repair statute. 3 pieces sit in this section; the whole roster is on the archive.
The first devices that phoned home
Networked consumer appliances appear at the end of the 1990s, and the dependency was in place before anyone asked what happened when the server left.
longThe cloud becomes the default
By the early 2010s the vendor cloud was the assumed control path, and local-only operation had to be argued for.
mediumLegislation catches up, partly
Recent statutes require parts and documentation but mostly stop short of requiring that a device keep working when the service ends.
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