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This is actually an improvement. It aligns the incentives of the guys making your thermostat's web UI. Otherwise your thermostat wouldn't get new features and s

• goodpoint 5y ago
  No, I want security updates without surveillance, without lock-in and without a monthly fee. Sounds like too much to ask? This is what Linux distributions has been providing for decades. And my 486 PC was less powerful than some thermostat.
• kumarsw 5y ago
  SaaS gets hated on too much here. The incentives work out as well for desktop software - there's no longer the incentive to add new features to justify customers purchasing a new version (or withhold features until the new version). The problem I've seen is that it almost always comes with a big price hike when compared to an alternative of upgrading every 3 years. The only exception to this I can think of is Office 365 which still remains a deal.
• Workaccount2 5y ago
  Its a fucking thermostat. I don't need the company to be bankrolling a $2mm/yr AI team so that the thermostat can try to make better guess about when I want to turn on the heat.
  • akomtu 5y ago
    You don't, but they do. By analysing how you use thermostats they may figure you need an AC and sell your profile to AC makers.