Home/Categories/Retroactively amended purchase
Retroactively amended purchase
7
On 26 February 2025, Amazon removed the "download and transfer via USB" feature from their website. This means Amazon Kindle users are no longer able to download their purchased e-books from Amazon's…
"If companies can modify internet-connected products and charge subscriptions after people have already purchased them, what does it mean to own anything anymore?" - Brian X. Chen, The New York Times
Google displays an example of a retroactively amended purchase by removing an accessibility feature of the Pixel Buds and failing to offer a reasonable alternative to customers who rely on it.
Philips Hue is a product line of smart lighting equipment by Signify (former lighting division of Philips). A change was announced in 2023, which requires users of the Hue app to create an account to…
Robinhood Financial, LLC, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Robinhood Markets, Inc. The US app based brokerage company offers commission free stock and ETF trading ( exchange-traded funds ). Founded in…
TD Ameritrade was a US-based company providing brokerage and related financial services. The company underwent an acquisition by Charles Schwab between 2019 and 2020 and completed transition of…
Wink is a company that produces various smart home products that can be remotely operated via smart phone.