Google is killing first and second gen Nest Thermostats (support.google.com)

Discussion (82 points, 4 months ago, 72 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43802574

Damn...

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.

I am never connecting a thermostat to the internet or using one that strictly requires the internet.

They could at least have the decency to unlock+open-source the thing.

Offering a 50% discount on the next generation sounds pretty shitty.

I question how good the engineers are if it costs so much to keep those services running.

I guess the only way out is to vote with your wallet.

YouTube and Gmail are the only Google services left in my life.

Not very "carbon friendly". But the recycler they mention will probably kindly ship it do a foreign landfill.

Who woulda thought “one day, I might have little to zero control over your own thermostat” but here we are when planned obsolescence bleeds into everything it becomes pretty dystopian pretty quick.

So it looks like these models are over 10 years old

I'm not trying to be a shill for a trillion dollar company but I'd probably put up with the annoyance of swapping the thermostat once every 10+ years over switching to a different company if I was happy with it.