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I am turning off my future purchases of Google Nest products.
by systemBuilder 7y ago
I am turning off my future purchases of Google Nest products.
- alasdair_ 7y agoMe too. I was literally just looking at them, since I wanted to hook up a smart thermostat with my motorized blinds (close blinds in summer when temperature is > X) and was planning on buying one this month, but no longer.
- pugworthy 7y agoWhy exactly? How does this decision impact you personally?
- johnwheeler 7y agoYou keep repeating this in your comments like a broken record. What do _you_ care that people care? People obviously do care or they wouldn’t be voicing on HN? Why does that bother you so much?
- pugworthy 7y agoBecause I believe many of the responses are irrational, and not expressing what the actual underlying feelings are of the commenters. People are upset that there is a reduction in the openness of things, which I understand. People are upset that their personal projects and home hacks will stop working, which I understand. They should just state that though, and not the "That's it I'm never buying Nest again" type of angry response. If you want to hack your home, there are many open source alternatives.
- parrellel 7y agoIf you're dumping 2-3 hundred dollars on a thermostat, and suddenly it starts losing functionality, not buying another one makes a bit of sense. Or, relatedly, do you think all those labs that bought PS3's for their ability to act as Linux clusters were wrong to sue the hell out of Sony?
- gmiller123456 7y ago>If you want to hack your home, there are many open source alternatives. Nest used to be one of those alternatives, and everyone who bought into it is screwed. I did not buy into it because I figured it would happen. It does not make it any less horrible that it did happen.
- rodgerd 7y agoIs this a paid or recreational defence of Google?