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I'm ok with that. My issue with Google isn't Single-Sign-On, it's forcing every product into a social-network mold. Although I'm a happy user of Facebook and
by nostromo 13y ago
I'm ok with that. My issue with Google isn't Single-Sign-On, it's forcing every product into a social-network mold.
Although I'm a happy user of Facebook and Twitter, I think SV's social obsession has largely been fruitless. Social does not improve most products and can actually harm them.
And now I'm worrying about how "social" is going to be slapped on to my fire alarm.
- olalonde 13y agoCan't you create a Google Plus account without adding any friends so that it's only used a Single-Sign-On?
- username223 13y agoYou can almost certainly do this... until you annoy them, and they pull some "real name TOS" BS on you and disable your thermostat until you send them a scan of your driver's license.
- Sanddancer 13y agoYou missed my point. If apple controlled nest, you'd almost certainly only get notifications if you were using an idevice of some sort. Apple's terrible about working with others to create industry standards; the AppleTV for example would be a lot more useful if it used DLNA for streaming instead of Apple's proprietary format.
- ilyanep 13y agoI think you're missing his/her point. The problem nostromo has is not proprietary formats but social networks. I think the worry is updates like "John Doe turned the temperature in his house to 75!" (and while that fear is overstated, it's not unreasonable to not want products that can detect the presence of humans in your bedroom connected to social networks).
- psbp 13y agoGoogle+ doesn't really have to be a social network. There's nothing social about my use of G+, and I use it pretty frequently.