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|Miku Charges subscription for features that were previously free
|10/01/2023
|After being Acquired by Innovative Health Monitoring, a subscription service was added to Miku on October 1, 2023 to allow users who had already purchased their Miku Smart Baby Monitoring device to continue using previously free features through the Miku app such as Live Breathing,Sleep Tracking, and push notifications when your baby wakes up. Miku users who had already purchased Miku Care+ were not affected by this new subscription.
|Ongoing
|[https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/16zkzj9/my_400_baby_monitor_has_locked_previously_free/ My $400 baby monitor has locked previously free features behind a monthly subscription]<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=4 Oct 2023 |title=My $400 baby monitor has locked previously free features behind a monthly subscription. |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/16zkzj9/my_400_baby_monitor_has_locked_previously_free/ |url-status=live |access-date=4 Apr 2025 |website=Old Reddit}}</ref>
[https://assets.mikucloud.com/Innovative_Health_Monitoring-Letter_to_Customers.pdf The document referenced in the reddit post (IHM Acquisition PDF)]<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Letter to Customers |url=https://assets.mikucloud.com/Innovative_Health_Monitoring-Letter_to_Customers.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010081331/https://assets.mikucloud.com/Innovative_Health_Monitoring-Letter_to_Customers.pdf |archive-date=10 Oct 2023 |access-date=4 Apr 2025}}</ref>
|[https://youtube.com/watch?v=nigJMu0lUbM they made a $400 baby monitor a subscription...]<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Rossmann |first=Louis |date=5 Oct 2023 |title=they made a $400 baby monitor a subscription... |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nigJMu0lUbM |url-status=live |access-date=4 Apr 2025 |website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>
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==Controversies==
==Controversies==


===Miku Charges Subscription for Previously Free Features:===
===Miku Charges Subscription for Previously Free Features:===
'''''Main Article:''''' [[Miku Charges Subscription for Previously Free Features|'''Miku Charges Subscription for Previously Free Features''']]
 
'''''Year:''''' <u>10/01/2023</u>
===== Additional Controversy Details & Main Article: =====
'''''Aftermath:''''' <u>Ongoing</u>
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'''''Related Articles:''''' '''[https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/16zkzj9/my_400_baby_monitor_has_locked_previously_free/ My $400 baby monitor has locked previously free features behind a monthly subscription]<ref name=":2" />'''
'''''Related Videos:'' [https://youtube.com/watch?v=nigJMu0lUbM they made a $400 baby monitor a subscription...]<ref name=":3" />'''
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|'''[https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/16zkzj9/my_400_baby_monitor_has_locked_previously_free/ My $400 baby monitor has locked previously free features behind a monthly subscription]<ref name=":2" />'''
|'''[https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/16zkzj9/my_400_baby_monitor_has_locked_previously_free/ My $400 baby monitor has locked previously free features behind a monthly subscription]<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=4 Oct 2023 |title=My $400 baby monitor has locked previously free features behind a monthly subscription. |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/16zkzj9/my_400_baby_monitor_has_locked_previously_free/ |url-status=live |access-date=4 Apr 2025 |website=Old Reddit}}</ref>'''
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|[https://youtube.com/watch?v=nigJMu0lUbM '''they made a $400 baby monitor a subscription...''']'''<ref name=":3" />'''
|[https://youtube.com/watch?v=nigJMu0lUbM '''they made a $400 baby monitor a subscription...''']'''<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Rossmann |first=Louis |date=5 Oct 2023 |title=they made a $400 baby monitor a subscription... |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nigJMu0lUbM |url-status=live |access-date=4 Apr 2025 |website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>'''
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All Miku users received an email on September 15'th 2023 detailing changes to the access Miku customers would have to features on their Miku devices starting October 1'st 2023. According to Miku, "For customers who did not previously subscribe to Care+, many of the features you have been receiving for free will now require a monthly subscription fee. " <ref name=":1" /> Despite many users purchasing their Miku device before these changes were instituted and had no prior knowledge that these changes would be put in place upon purchasing their Miku device, if they did not pay the new ''"care+"'' subscription fee, access to services on their Miku device would be revoked.
 
===== Summarized Description: =====
All Miku users received an email on September 15'th 2023 detailing changes to the access Miku customers would have to features on their Miku devices starting October 1'st 2023. According to Miku, "For customers who did not previously subscribe to Care+, many of the features you have been receiving for free will now require a monthly subscription fee. " <ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Letter to Customers |url=https://assets.mikucloud.com/Innovative_Health_Monitoring-Letter_to_Customers.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010081331/https://assets.mikucloud.com/Innovative_Health_Monitoring-Letter_to_Customers.pdf |archive-date=10 Oct 2023 |access-date=4 Apr 2025}}</ref> Despite many users purchasing their Miku device before these changes were instituted and had no prior knowledge that these changes would be put in place upon purchasing their Miku device, if they did not pay the new ''"care+"'' subscription fee, access to services on their Miku device would be revoked.


==Miku Terms of Service and Arbitration Clause==
==Miku Terms of Service and Arbitration Clause==
'''''Main Article:'' [[Miku Terms of Service and Arbitration]]'''
 
===== Additional Details & Main Article: =====
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!'''[[Miku Terms of Service and Arbitration]]'''
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|Effective Date:
|9/22/2023
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|Last Updated On:
|6/12/2024
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===== Summarized Description: =====
This article presents a summarized version of the Miku Terms of Service and Arbitration clause within it. Within the article, important Terms of Service information is provided to help others gain a better understanding of their agreement between themselves and Miku, and the rights and freedoms the have upon agreement to Miku's Terms of Service.
This article presents a summarized version of the Miku Terms of Service and Arbitration clause within it. Within the article, important Terms of Service information is provided to help others gain a better understanding of their agreement between themselves and Miku, and the rights and freedoms the have upon agreement to Miku's Terms of Service.


 
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