Amazon cancels the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition’s main feature — focusing on photos

Last year, Amazon launched the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition that could default to displaying owners’ favourite pictures — arsenic agelong arsenic they paid an other fee. Now it looks similar that program has been abandoned, with the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition and its accompanying $2 / period PhotosPlus subscription astir erased from Amazon’s website.

One customer received a connection saying the work has been canceled and that Amazon volition nary longer connection the subscription starting September 23rd.

The PhotosPlus subscription is what owners request to marque photos “the superior contented you see” connected the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition with a slideshow that rotates each 30 seconds. It besides offers the quality to amusement photos “indefinitely,” arsenic different Echo Show displays volition regenerate your photograph slideshow with promotions and ads aft 3 hours.

But present that Amazon’s doing distant with the subscription, radical who paid much for the $159.99 Echo Show 8 Photos Edition won’t get to show their photos much prominently, and the instrumentality volition fundamentally go a modular Echo Show 8. Even though Amazon is discontinuing this feature, the institution says PhotosPlus users tin inactive entree the 25GB of photograph and video retention it offered done the subscription.

The Verge reached retired to Amazon for much accusation connected wherefore it’s ending the subscription but didn’t instantly perceive back.