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Google IoT Core will be discontinued on Aug. 16, 2023

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Re: Google IoT Core will be discontinued on Aug. 16, 2023

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Post by btgeekboy »

radiojasper wrote: post #13
mindcrime wrote: post #8

Google should just go ahead and shut down their entire Cloud business. I mean, nobody in their right mind would build a business or anything substantial on top of any Google provided service, and the hobbyist market can't be that big. Just go ahead and drop out Google, and quit fucking wasting everybody's time.

I just read an article that Discord is heavily relying on Google Cloud [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32474093

Luckily, it sounds as if they’re relying mostly on lower level primitives vs. these higher level abstractions that are more likely to be discontinued.

Re: Google IoT Core will be discontinued on Aug. 16, 2023

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Post by dekhn »

mindcrime wrote: post #8

Google should just go ahead and shut down their entire Cloud business. I mean, nobody in their right mind would build a business or anything substantial on top of any Google provided service, and the hobbyist market can't be that big. Just go ahead and drop out Google, and quit fucking wasting everybody's time.

Google Cloud (VMs, blob storage, databases) bring in multiple billions of revenue a year from enterprise. The company invested billions in new data centers and transferred large parts of intenral technical infrastructure into cloud to build these products over a decade.

If Google Cloud (VMs, blob storage, databases) shut down, not only will large # of enterprises howl (data gravity is huge), Google will absolutely have no future in any enterprise product ever again.

I do expect them to aggressively trim small products from the cloud lineup that aren't worth the engineering investment. IoT clouds were a popular thing for several months and then people realized there wasn't a huge market or tons of profit.

Re: Google IoT Core will be discontinued on Aug. 16, 2023

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Post by Spooky23 »

mindcrime wrote: post #8

Google should just go ahead and shut down their entire Cloud business. I mean, nobody in their right mind would build a business or anything substantial on top of any Google provided service, and the hobbyist market can't be that big. Just go ahead and drop out Google, and quit fucking wasting everybody's time.

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Re: Google IoT Core will be discontinued on Aug. 16, 2023

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Post by gerdesj »

andrewxdiamond wrote: post #24
openthc wrote: post #11

hahaa; wow. So, we were doing this sensor project; and I picked "boring" things like raspberry-pi, python scripts, wiring the GPIO with a screw-down terminal or using SDR for other off-the shelf sensors to build the network. And in one of the demos showing our very low-budget type project a reviewer said: "you should look at IoT managers like the G offering, we're using it". So, they declined to use our methods and b…

I think it’s important to “own” what makes you different. Running your own servers isn’t that important and probably isn’t what makes you different. EC2, Azure VMs or whatever short term project Google is running for compute are all extremely comparable, and you loose very little by using them. But if your business is owning and operating an IoT platform for your customers, you should invest in a high quality solutio…

I think it is important to mostly be in charge of your own destiny too.

When my doorbell (Doorbird) goes off at home the following happens:

* A real chime sounds (battery backed, mains powered, no internet required) * Native app goes ape shit and twitters (often about two hours later) * Home Assistant app kicks in on queue and does what I tell it to: Speakers speak, SMS sent etc

Re: Google IoT Core will be discontinued on Aug. 16, 2023

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Post by game-of-throws »

3 years ago Google killed off Android Things[1] and told everyone to migrate to IoT Core. Now IoT Core is dead. But don't worry about all that, just connect with your Google Cloud account manager! They'll tell you exactly which Google platform you should migrate to next.

[1]: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/02/an-update-...

Re: Google IoT Core will be discontinued on Aug. 16, 2023

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Post by joegahona »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #26
kerblang wrote: post #2

Are we talking about this? https://cloud.google.com/solutions/iot

Yep, see the discontinuation banner at the top of https://cloud.google.com/iot-core

> Google Cloud IoT Core is being retired on August 16, 2023. Contact your Google Cloud account team for more information.

Gotta love the "retired" nomenclature -- as though it has had a long, productive career and now is the normal/usual time to end.

Re: Google IoT Core will be discontinued on Aug. 16, 2023

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Post by qbasic_forever »

nicosandller wrote: post #19

How are they going to keep the “google home” ecosystem alive without IoT Core ? They said they were going full on the matter protocol but I don’t see how this will replace it fully yet.

There are so many different teams and organizations and acquisitions and such that I suspect Google Home has nothing at all to do with Google IoT. The IoT thing looks like it was focused more on being device management presumably to help funnel industrial and embedded customers in to using GCP and other Google cloud services. The Google Home stuff is probably all from Nest and such and entirely separate.
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