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About two years ago Google's Nest subsidiary acquired Revolv. It was an acqui-hire - they did not want the customers or the products, they wanted the engineers. Revolv's main product was a $300 home automation hub that relied on cloud hosted servers for all its functionality.
Today, Nest announced that they would be turning off those servers, leaving revolv customers with a $300 brick. To make things worse, Revolv had promised their customers lifetime service. Revolv is still alive and well, it's just changed its name to Nest. So whose lifetime were they talking about?
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Google Shows us the Future of Cloud-Dependent Home Automation
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Said the attractive, cigar-smoking housewife to her girl-friend: "I got
started one night when George came home and found one burning in the ashtray."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 05 2016, @04:06PM
This is slightly related in that it does not bode well for all the rest of Nest's products.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nest/comments/4dbbgh/is_anyone_concerned_about_the_future_of_nest/d1pjcku [reddit.com]