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I think the Amazon Key Garage had to be taken non-free because the semi-monopolist, Chamberlain, realized they could charge Amazon for the ability to open your garage door.

>>TheJoe+(OP)
It still works. And apparently you set one day/week and aggregate all your deliveries and they’ll still Key deliver. And my Tesla still opens my garage door just fine.

But I don’t care why they took it away. It was a great feature for me… I live in a gated community but I travel a lot, so it’s nice to have all my stuff stowed in the garage, without thinking about it.

They can’t manage Alexa, they can’t manage Key, now they’re doing ads. They’re also underwhelming on Whole Foods — selections are down, inventory is off, and they removed the Hubs. They seem off. Jassee might be ROI focused but he’s choking the customer delights. They don’t feel essential anymore.

Whatevs. Not impressed. It’s a bye for me.

>>browni+g2
The why probably should matter to you. If your gated community started charging $50 for the Amazon truck to enter, would you expect them to just "manage" and blame Amazon when they cut back the number of delivery slots?

Still cancel if you want, sure, but don't knock their competence the same way.

>>Dylan1+Se
Of course they’d get a pass for that. But that’s not what happened. I’m not going to pay $3/mo for something I had today. Rings of Power wasn’t that good.

And: https://x.com/doctorow/status/1669073016419155973?s=46&t=UYF...

>>browni+fu2
> Of course they’d get a pass for that. But that’s not what happened.

It's very likely what happened here. Chamberlain owns so many brands of garage door opener, and they're trying to lock down remote access to make money off of. For example forcing customers to use their ad-filled app.