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Many customers were displeased with the subscription service added to Miku. Leading to products being returned and customers emailing Innovative Health Monitoring to voice their opinions with the company. | Many customers were displeased with the subscription service added to Miku. Leading to products being returned and customers emailing Innovative Health Monitoring to voice their opinions with the company. | ||
Due to these subscription changes being instituted through automatic updates to the Miku mobile application, turning off automatic updates and refusing to update the Miku app would keep the features that were now locked behind a subscription.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Miku bought out and now charging a subscription for basic features. |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/daddit/comments/16jr4vy/miku_bought_out_and_now_charging_a_subscription/ |url-status=live |access-date=4 Apr 2025 |website=[[Reddit]]}}</ref> | Due to these subscription changes being instituted through automatic updates to the Miku mobile application, turning off automatic updates and refusing to update the Miku app would keep the features that were now locked behind a subscription.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Miku bought out and now charging a subscription for basic features. |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/daddit/comments/16jr4vy/miku_bought_out_and_now_charging_a_subscription/ |url-status=live |access-date=4 Apr 2025 |website=[[Reddit]] |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230916002158/https://old.reddit.com/r/daddit/comments/16jr4vy/miku_bought_out_and_now_charging_a_subscription/ |archive-date=16 Sep 2023}}</ref> | ||
== Industry trend == | |||
The changes that Innovative Health Monitoring has made to the Miku care+ subscription model regarding the accessibility of its previously-offered services to customers sets a precedent for how Innovative Health Monitoring can remove or completely lock services away from customers in the future for all products and services they provide. According to the Miku Terms of service: | |||
<blockquote>''"We reserve the right to change the Terms at any time, but if we do, we will do our best to bring it to your attention by placing a notice on the Miku website, by sending you an email, and/or by some other means."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=15 Sep 2023 |title=Miku Care terms of service |url=https://mikucare.com/pages/terms-of-service |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250722045420/https://mikucare.com/pages/terms-of-service |archive-date=22 Jul 2025 |access-date=15 Aug 2025 |website=Miku Care}}</ref>''</blockquote> | |||
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<blockquote>''"If you use the Services in any way after a change to the Terms are effective, you agree to the changes to the Terms."<ref name=":0" />''</blockquote> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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[[Category:Miku]] | [[Category:Miku]] | ||
[[Category:Incidents]] | [[Category:Incidents]] | ||
[[Category:Feature_Ransom]] | |||