It started with an expired credit card. A friend on my testing team — the person who handles shipping labels and invoice copies around here — logged a support ticket that read like a ransom note: her printer refused to print, and the screen kept directing her to a billing portal. Nothing was broken. The …
The Subscription Math Problem: I Ran the Numbers on Every AI Voice Recorder I’ve been testing AI hardware for twenty-five years, and I’ve watched the same pattern repeat itself: brilliant hardware crippled by subscription fatigue. Smart rings that charge you monthly just to see your own data. Security cameras that hold your footage hostage. NAS …