No Longer Evil – new life for dead/outdated Nest Generation 1 and 2 thermostats
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19 hours ago
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gnabgib
18 hours ago
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Discussion (385 points, 2 months ago, 141 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813343
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founderofnest
8 hours ago
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Should Nest have allowed itself to be acquired by Google?

Why did Google add internet connection and internet server dependencies to thermostats?

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NetMageSCW
2 hours ago
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Google didn’t, Nest did before Google purchased them.
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fragmede
2 hours ago
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Do you have any connection to Tony Fadell or Matt Rogers, or is your username just some happy accident?
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culopatin
4 minutes ago
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This looks like an account created just to answer in this post with whatever garbage content
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founderofnest
8 hours ago
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Why did Google add internet connection and internet server dependencies to thermostats?

Should we have trusted their closed-source thermostat code given the way they've just canceled 1st and 2nd gen devices?

Google Home now has a 3 yr retention policy on everything; whereas Gemini API customers have already negotiated a no retention policy. And they're cancelling Google Assistant, so that's their only option now.

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