These objections would still apply and still be irrelevant. If the servers are shut down, the money should magically appear back in the customers' accounts.

Surely driving like a dick ("Look I'm smart enough to make a donut shape with my poison-spewing penis substitute") is the largest contributor to airborne tyre particulate.

Breaking news: Frump to invade Norway to confiscate Teslas / Bring Democracy.

Yep, it's almost as if there should be a requirement for a 'fair usage policy' term in every contract or more generally that contracts which formalise an imbalance of power should become a thing of the past - if only morality could keep pace with the development of mobile phone tech.

Perhaps if there were some way to package morality with profit rather than the current situation where morality seems to be an inconvenient and optional impediment to profit.

Tru dat.

Sounds good to me. Someone will chime-in, as usual, that:
* Non-transferable third party licenses
* Reduction of possibility of future exclusive exploitation of their re-usable IP (game engine, assets, game mechanics etc) thus giving competitors a leg-up

Still, this is not core to the issue that customers expect persistent use from the exchange.

I'd secretly hoped for a combination of the Spanish Inquisition, Alien Invasion and The Robocalype. Still waiting...

Perhaps an umbrella/mini-projector attachment

I'm holding-out for the seven-hexagonal-panel smartphone.

So awesome, particularly when rent for a single-bed home is $100k/mo :P

Given that everyone knows it's about money, perhaps they could score authenticity points by just saying so, or is openness frowned-upon?

Let me know when there's thermally-regulated sewage available as part of the experience - until then it's just not worth the inconvenience.

For those customers who just can't quit the overpriced-junk-food-and-sticky-seats experience, someone should create an app which notifies customers when the ads have finished with enough time to get back into the screening room.

AMC Warns customers to go elsewhere.

Even with the streaming battles, I can't see how there are still cinemas at all - I guess this is some kind of death-spiral thing...

So..., you're saying word hasn't get gotten around within the robot community that Amazon expect a 24/7 work pattern with no breaks ...or something else?