I find the video in the article really interesting. This person is clearly an adult and is crying while discussing the robot's future "death" with it. She's clearly quite attached despite the robot being quite inhuman with sub par text to speech.
This company is a take the money and run type of operation. No subscription plan and I doubt the API fees were making a huge part of their obscene profit. They would have eventually, but clearly they were not going to wait that long.
Well yeah, I would cry if one of my stuffies got destroyed and it's even less animated than the robot. It being less animated actually helps the attachment because it's more like a pet than a person.
This company is a take the money and run type of operation. No subscription plan and I doubt the API fees were making a huge part of their obscene profit. They would have eventually, but clearly they were not going to wait that long.