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Oh Google... People do not care when it was introduced - people care for support from the time when the last one got sold!
by tandr 5y ago
Oh Google... People do not care when it was introduced - people care for support from the time when the last one got sold!
- jeffbee 5y agoThe TP-Link OnHub is still for sale on Newegg right now. I don't see how Google can control the behavior of retailers of 3rd-party hardware.
- tandr 5y agoThey still advertise it on their own website https://on.google.com/hub/?main=retail https://on.google.com/hub/?main=retail , so they expect it to be still selling.
- sebmellen 5y agoFrom that page: > OnHub’s software includes advanced and always-evolving security features that update automatically to help protect your network, your data, and all your devices. LOL
- jiggawatts 5y agoSomeone in Australia should report them to the ACCC for false advertising.
- wtallis 5y ago> I don't see how Google can control the behavior of retailers of 3rd-party hardware. That hardware bears trademarks that Google controls, so it's not purely a third-party product. Google may not be able to prevent retailers from selling off their remaining stock, but they should at least be able to prevent the manufacturers from sending any more to retailers, and inform retailers that the products are discontinued.
- jeffbee 5y agoTP-Link EOL'd this thing many years ago.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoHow come smaller companies like Zyxel and Asus have solved this problem decades ago? Maybe because they support their hardware for years after they stopped producing, so the stock clears?
- _jal 5y agoThey don't have advertising-monopoly waterfalls of money, which affords them an attention span for things other than the care and feeding of the advertising monopoly.
- dontblink 5y agoDo they though? Are there regular security updates for their products for every one of their models? My suspicion is they just silently stop support.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoIt's one thing to leave some obscure issue unpatched in a functional product, but to leave a product non-functional is such vandalism that I will avoid them like the plague. But yes, every time i bought one of their products i had 5 years of updates, and by that time it was out of retail for years.
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- toast0 5y agoWhile it is manufactured by a third party, it's branded as a Google product. You can't control retail inventory (well, for some products retailers report serial numbers sold, so maybe you can), but you can make relatively solid assumptions that if you shipped the units to the store/retail warehouse, they're either going to sell them or return them within some period of time, maybe 3-6 months. So assume last sale was 6 months after the last shipment.
- mdoms 5y agoThey can buy the units back from retailers. It's common practice.
- ineedasername 5y agoThey can issue a recall.