We desperately need laws for stuff like this.
Why not force companies open source the server code when they kill an online only service?
This will affect IoT, cars, video games, toys and a whole bunch of other devices in the future.
Oh. Neat. Literal planned obsolesce.
Nest released the original Learning Thermostat to almost universal praise in 2011, with the sequel arriving a year later. Google’s second-gen Euro unit launched in 2014. Since launch, all these devices have been getting regular software updates and have migrated across multiple app redesigns. However, all good things must come to an end.
As Google points out, these products have had a long life
14 years for a thermostat that still works? What has really changed in that time that the servers can’t support sending commands to them anymore. Seems like this is just part of the switch to Gemini and planned obsolescence to get people to buy new devices with terrible Gemini features that will stop working in 5 years, and result in more e-waste.
What has really changed in that time that the servers can’t support sending commands to them anymore.
The discovery of the higgs boson changed everything we thought we knew about the notion of room temperature. It’s just not the same world those old thermostats were designed to operate in.
I’m done with Google.
They ruin everything good they create, like Google Music, in the name of profits.
Putting GrapheneOS on my phone this weekend. I already started migrating all my files to Proton.
Yay. Can’t wait for my car systems to go obsolete because of some arbitrary manufacturer standard.
Edit: it should be a rule that when manufacturers stop supporting something they should also publish the design documents. Better yet, open source it so some enterprising person can take over the reins.
