[ElijahLynn]

This is a pretty good point and actually just thwarted my planned purchase of the new Oculus I was planning on buying.

"I think people should continue to make sure their Facebook accounts are in good standing before they buy the headset. They can work through those problems before they do it." ~ Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, Vice President of Augmented and Virtual Reality at Facebook

Source: https://twitter.com/thebigdev433/status/1316926387664584704 (linked to from OP)

This seems similar in some way to Google deleting the Cloud Print service that my printer I paid $300 for uses. Google has this listed on their site "Note: After December 31, 2020, Google Cloud Print will no longer be supported."

Seems like a dangerous thing to buy hardware from these companies now. And the only sane thing is to buy open hardware when it exists.

[m-p-3]

> This seems similar in some way to Google deleting the Cloud Print service that my printer I paid $300 for uses.

Oh boy, you'd be pissed to learn that IFTTT crippled their free tier, especially of you bought many IoT devices with the "Works with IFTTT" label on it.

One thing to always keep in mind when you buy a device is to never buy it because of a specific service, but for its standalone capabilities.

[viraptor]

Even better - if you can, but it got standalone capabilities and for open standards. "Supports webhooks" will stand, even if "supports ifttt" goes away.