First and 2nd gen Nest Thermostats will lose support in Oct 2025
First and 2nd gen Nest Thermostats will lose support in Oct 2025
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Google announces 1st and 2nd gen Nest Thermostats will lose support in October 2025
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Google assimilated and ruined the brand Nest. I don't know who created the thermostats, but they will be shut down, like all the others, once the enshittified products generate too little income.
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Dude, they're 11 years old.
Edit: These are not 'just thermostats'. These are computers that are meant to connect to the Internet. 11 years of support for a computer is a long time.
When a computer's support reaches EoL, it's no longer secure. You don't want devices that are vulnerable to connect to your servers, so from a SecOps standpoint blocking their access makes sense.
It's not like these thermostats are going to be useless. You can still use them as thermostats, just not with the cloud service.
But I get it. Any logic or reason that disagrees with the hive mind craving to hate literally anything a company does will get downvoted to hell.
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It's a thermostat, my parents still have one of those goldtone Honeywell ones with a dial from like the 1960's. The only reason the app won't work is because they can't be bothered to support it. Stop making things obsolescent, make it mandatory that all this crap has a set support time after which it must be open sourced.
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