Automatic (Car Adapter) Shutting Down
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Automatic (Car Adapter) Shutting Down
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#2Whew, not Automattic (WordPress).
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#3I panicked thinking this was the company behind Wordpress. It's not, it's just a car assistant thing.
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#4They made my unit end of life, and then found themselves at end of life.
This is IoT.
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#5It's hard to believe they weren't acquired. The amount of driving data they have must be huge.
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#6They made my unit end of life, and then found themselves at end of life. This is IoT.
And that’s why the only IoT devices I’ll buy use Zigbee (ZWave works too). You can’t shut down a device that I control internet access to.
Sadly this doesn’t scale, it takes specialized skills and time to build out home automation using these technologies.
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#7Wow, the service stops on May 28th, less than a month away.
Just out of curiosity, have there been more (relatively successful) companies with a paid subscription plan that announced that they would, within a couple of weeks, shut their services down? As an outsider it seems quite drastic to me, given that the daily costs of keeping the servers running a bit longer is negligible.
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#8It's hard to believe they weren't acquired. The amount of driving data they have must be huge.
They were, SiriusXM acquired them just over three years ago: https://blog.automatic.com/automatic-siriusxm-4dfbc9a6885c
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#10I haven't read the article but I wonder how GeoTab worked into this (for the small fleet customers, large fleets would never consider this product)