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Like a car company with a 7 year warranty, with a guarantee of support for parts for the life of the house. Google have a responsibility to their customers. In
by rswail 7y ago
Like a car company with a 7 year warranty, with a guarantee of support for parts for the life of the house.
Google have a responsibility to their customers. In this case, the customers are the people that actually buy the hardware. It's not "Temperature As A Service".
- cube00 7y agoOr Nexus phones, completely turned their back on security updates after three years while the hardware is still working.
- eitally 7y agoFWIW, Philips just did something even worse with their Hue system, essentially forcing "legacy" (v1) Hue customers to spend $50 to buy a v2 Bridge if they wanted the system to keep working as usual. Coincidentally, this was a few years after they backpedaled on a decision to disallow control of non-Hue bulbs (https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2015/12/12/philips-hue-blocks-3rd-party-bulbs/ https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2015/12/12/philips-hue-bl...) after public outcry.
- nitrogen 7y agoI haven't used a v2 bridge, but v1 bridge I have is horribly slow and underpowered. I'm more annoyed by the API changes they've made over time that broke my integration with the bridge. At least there is a local LAN integration option though, and you aren't forced to integrate with a remote service that might be shut down unexpectedly.