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posted by Fnord666 on Monday March 05 2018, @07:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the empty-nesters dept.

Amazon will stop selling Nest products once its current stock of them runs out:

The impending disappearance of Nest from Amazon marks just the latest development in the acrimonious, anti-consumer feud between Amazon and Google. Nest was absorbed back into Google last month after spending three years as a standalone Alphabet subsidiary. (Google tipped off Nest that Amazon had decided against selling its latest hardware while the companies were still separate.) Amazon has steadfastly refused to sell some Google-branded products like the Google Home voice assistant speaker and the company's Pixel smartphones. In December, the online retailer said it would restart sales of the Chromecast streaming device, but it's been three months and you still can't buy it. Last summer, Amazon launched a Prime Video app for Android, but has yet to add support for streaming its content with a Chromecast.

For its part in this ugly falling out, Google has removed YouTube from Amazon's Fire TV streaming products and the Echo Show / Spot, claiming that Amazon has violated its terms of service with those implementations of the YouTube app. There were once signs that the companies were mending the scorched bridge between them, but that doesn't seem to be the case any longer.

Related:
Amazon Declares War on YouTube by Launching Amazon Video Direct
Google Pulls YouTube off of the Amazon Echo Show
Google's "Manhattan" to Compete With Amazon's Echo Show
Amazon Wants to Deliver Purchases into Your Home
Google Pulls YouTube Off of More Amazon Devices
Google Absorbs Nest, Nest Co-Founder Quits
Amazon Acquires Ring, Maker of Internet-Connected Doorbells and Cameras, for Over $1 Billion


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  • (Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Monday March 05 2018, @05:27PM (1 child)

    by Osamabobama (5842) on Monday March 05 2018, @05:27PM (#648051)

    Your non-standard usage pattern isn't something that couldn't be solved by throwing money at it. Specifically, you could add another Nest to the network, mounted in a room that you frequent. That second thermostat would then communicate wirelessly with the one connected to the furnace, providing temperature control as expected.

    Of course, that's not a reasonable solution. A more reasonable solution would be to manually program it to keep temperature where you want it. That solution, though, could be performed by a much cheaper thermostat, so it's not appropriate, either.

    The last option would be to manually reset the heat via the mobile app on occasions when the thermostat allows the house to cool down because it is erroneously seen as vacant. But nobody buys an expensive thermostat to fight with it on a regular basis...

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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday March 06 2018, @02:41AM

    by anubi (2828) on Tuesday March 06 2018, @02:41AM (#648326) Journal

    At this point, I would have used the Arduino.

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