Google is killing first and second gen Nest Thermostats
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Google is killing first and second gen Nest Thermostats
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#2Discussion (82 points, 4 months ago, 72 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43802574
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#4Damn...
And also,
> We’ll reach out to eligible users in the US and Canada for the Nest Learning Thermostat (4th gen) at a special price: $149.99 [219.99 CAD] (nearly 50% off).
However, we got a Nest from the Oregon Energy trust for $50 I think. So, not a great price.
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#5Damn... And also, > We’ll reach out to eligible users in the US and Canada for the Nest Learning Thermostat (4th gen) at a special price: $149.99 [219.99 CAD] (nearly 50% off). However, we got a Nest from the Oregon Energy trust for $50 I think. So, not a great price.
This kind of thing drives me crazy, and I think it helps to highlight some of the money-grubbing nature of the tech industry.
Years ago, you'd buy a cheap thermostat and it'd last 30 years or whatever. But the tech industry had to improve that by instead making them last less than half as long and cost substantially more.
I understand the idea that smart stuff is cool or whatever, but it feels like it'd be smarter if it lasted as long as the thing they're trying to replace...
Re: Google is killing first and second gen Nest Thermostats
#6I am never connecting a thermostat to the internet or using one that strictly requires the internet.
Re: Google is killing first and second gen Nest Thermostats
#7Damn... And also, > We’ll reach out to eligible users in the US and Canada for the Nest Learning Thermostat (4th gen) at a special price: $149.99 [219.99 CAD] (nearly 50% off). However, we got a Nest from the Oregon Energy trust for $50 I think. So, not a great price.
This kind of thing drives me crazy, and I think it helps to highlight some of the money-grubbing nature of the tech industry. Years ago, you'd buy a cheap thermostat and it'd last 30 years or whatever. But the tech industry had to improve that by instead making them last less than half as long and cost substantially more. I understand the idea that smart stuff is cool or whatever, but it feels like it'd be smarter if…
It's one of the problems created by allowing billionaire technofeudal overlords to do whatever they want. They believe they are entitled to anything and everything, and so everything they make turns to shit to fool you into maintaining it and rebuying it faster and faster.
Re: Google is killing first and second gen Nest Thermostats
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
This kind of thing drives me crazy, and I think it helps to highlight some of the money-grubbing nature of the tech industry. Years ago, you'd buy a cheap thermostat and it'd last 30 years or whatever. But the tech industry had to improve that by instead making them last less than half as long and cost substantially more. I understand the idea that smart stuff is cool or whatever, but it feels like it'd be smarter if…
It's one of the problems created by allowing billionaire technofeudal overlords to do whatever they want. They believe they are entitled to anything and everything, and so everything they make turns to shit to fool you into maintaining it and rebuying it faster and faster.
Planned obsolescence is as old as the light bulb.
Re: Google is killing first and second gen Nest Thermostats
#9They could at least have the decency to unlock+open-source the thing.
Offering a 50% discount on the next generation sounds pretty shitty.
Re: Google is killing first and second gen Nest Thermostats
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's one of the problems created by allowing billionaire technofeudal overlords to do whatever they want. They believe they are entitled to anything and everything, and so everything they make turns to shit to fool you into maintaining it and rebuying it faster and faster.
Planned obsolescence is as old as the light bulb.
That's a given. It is, but it's not a binary on/off. It's a sliding continuum of enshitification and the current trend is to rapidly increasing towards worse. It rarely/never goes back the other way.