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> But if you buy a Nest, you're buying a network-connected device. A decade replacement cycle for network-connected computing devices is not crazy. It should b
by mschuster91 2y ago
> But if you buy a Nest, you're buying a network-connected device. A decade replacement cycle for network-connected computing devices is not crazy.
It should be, though. Okay, I get spare parts not being available after 10 years, particularly the "smart" chips simply don't get produced any more. But firmware and API support? How fucking hard can it be for a company raking in 90 fucking billion dollars in a single quarter of a year to keep a dozen people on payroll to keep the old servers, APIs and build tooling for the firmware up to date?!
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- firesteelrain 2y agoTo add that Nest team probably isn’t doing a whole lot. It’s mostly bug fixes it says which is probably just open source dependency management.
- ForOldHack 2y agoAquire a new tech, shart the sales team, say everyone should get one, shart the development staff and only have a single maintenance engineer, who is moonlighting, suck up all the profits, and then with the stroke of a pen from the brain addled director, killyhe product completely. Let them eat cake. https://hackaday.com/2019/02/27/hack-my-house-raspberry-pi-as-a-touchscreen-thermostat/ https://hackaday.com/2019/02/27/hack-my-house-raspberry-pi-a...
- ForOldHack 2y agoLet them piss off a netizen. They will have it opensourced and a better product, by Monday. There may even be a better product already!