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Last year, Amazon launched the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition that could default to displaying owners’ favorite pictures — as long as they paid an extra fee. Now it looks like that plan has been abandoned, with the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition and its accompanying $2 / month PhotosPlus subscription nearly erased from Amazon’s website.
One customer received a message saying the service has been canceled and that Amazon will no longer offer the subscription starting September 23rd.
The PhotosPlus subscription is what owners need to make photos “the primary content you see” on the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition with a slideshow that rotates every 30 seconds. It also offers the ability to show photos “indefinitely,” as other Echo Show displays will…
