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I just bought a roomba and was happy that they weren’t owned by Google or Amazon. This is unfortunate. I owned nests before Google bought them and it was sad t
by prepend 4y ago
I just bought a roomba and was happy that they weren’t owned by Google or Amazon. This is unfortunate.
I owned nests before Google bought them and it was sad to both see their innovation decline (basically the same now as 8 years ago) and usability decline (forcing Google logins).
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoTime to do what I did to every hardware product I owned which Google acquired: Rip it out, delete my account, and try to make my money back selling it to someone else. I actually made a profit on both my Nest and my Fitbit so far! Though the Nest was from energy rebates before I resold it, and the Fitbit was from it's recall for burn risk... Recall paid MSRP, not the price I purchased it for.
- andrew_ 4y agoI have two Nest-E devices in the home and have not enabled Google login. If you can find the older versions of the thermostats, you can factory reset them, stick them on a guest network without internal access, and never use the Google login, just the old Nest login. Not sure how long that'll stay like that, but it's doable at present.
- prepend 4y agoI haven’t enabled Google login either but I get nagware from nest and Google asking me to. I really like my nest and hope I can keep them for a long time.
- chaostheory 4y agoI’m normally skewering how Google manages their physical products, but Tbf Nest declined due to mismanagement by Tony Fadel, one of the founders. Google gave Nest tons of money which didn’t lead to anything major materializing instead of delay after delay.
- prepend 4y agoFadell left Nest in 2016. Maybe the early stagnation can be blamed on him. But Google has had the reigns for 6 years and nest has really not done anything substantial.