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Most comments here rightfully touch on how Google will likely sunset this product after the teams that built it get hollowed out and they realize it generates n
by oldandboring 2y ago
Most comments here rightfully touch on how Google will likely sunset this product after the teams that built it get hollowed out and they realize it generates no ad revenue. Almost definitely true.
I wish to add that the entire home automation landscape is a total clusterf**. It's an indecipherable mess of competing and overlapping standards, protocols, ecosystems amid a sea of players constantly joining and leaving the market, introducing and sunsetting their products. It's extremely difficult to find one solution that solves all your home automation and security needs. Then DIY'ers start adding things like Homeassistant into the mix to "tie it all together", which really is not practical for the average consumer.
Right now I have probably 8 to 10 different apps on my phone for remote controlling thermostats, security systems, and doorbell cams.
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoI agree, and I refuse to use anything more complicated or expensive than a few smart plugs and bulbs. More importantly, I refuse to let myself get into the mindest that a thermostat is something I need to control from an app, or that I need video from my front door. Once I let myself expect those things, I'm at the mercy of shitty products, integration, and surveillance.
- oldandboring 2y agoYeah but it's a game changer if you have a second home.