This story was originally published 2020/05/07
7:00am PDTon May 7, 2020 and last updated 2020/05/22
1:30am PDTon May 22, 2020. 

Earlier this May, Wink announced out of the blue that it would charge customers $4.99 a month to continue using its services, or else their hardware would stop working. Following understandable customer backlash, the company first extended the cut-off deadline by a week, and has now indefinitely back-paddled, saying that it'll look for a new start date of the subscription.