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Nest engineer says company on deathwatch
- api 11y agoIf this happens to Nest or any other company like them, we will discover that anything dependent on the cloud is destined someday -- probably sooner than we expect -- to become a brick. The sooner we learn this lesson the better. IMHO cloud dependency is a trait of "IoT 1.0," and will ultimately fail. "IoT 2.0" will be directly accessible and controllable with open APIs and that's when IoT will really succeed in a big way.
- brianwawok 11y agoGoogle is a big CO. If they literally bricked their thermostats, wouldn't they be liable? I get a SAAS app can shut down without notice, but breaking hardware?