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What happens if the devs making a device stop paying? Do the customers' devices stop working?

Also, that seems like an unacceptably steep BOM item for a consumer device. The MCU itself costs less in many cases over reasonable device lifetimes.

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It is worth noticing that you enable and disable the serviceability for individual devices when you want to. Your unserviced devices are free and keep running your code.

https://toit.io/pricing

I'd assume offline features would keep functioning, but online features would stop working. The online features seem to be device provisioning (so may not be able to change WiFi access points?), OTA updates, and cloud PubSub.

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