Apple Ceases Selling Nest Products Online and In Stores

[BoxerGT2.5]

I guess you are not aware that the Nest also monitors when you are home and when not. Is that really information that you would like to share with anyone?

You can ring my doorbell and find that out. It has sensors to detect when you enter a room or flip a light on to modulate the temperature accordingly. It's not feeding info to a conglomerate of home bandits ready to rob you blind thanks to google. People really need to take off the tin foil hats.

 

[BoxerGT2.5]

Does this include the upcoming Nest Diaper Genie?

Do you really want to share what kind of bowel habits your crib midgets have? OMG the invasion of privacy at the hands of google never ends!!!! Imagine if google made condoms, then no one could lie anymore on the internet once they collect all the data.

 

[peterdevries]

It's not feeding info to a conglomerate of home bandits ready to rob you blind thanks to google. People really need to take off the tin foil hats.

How do you know it not saves a log of all its actions and uploads it? And how can you be sure that that info is not at some point hacked or used?

Example: Google just introduced a Timeline feature that uses the location data from your smartphone to show you where you have been (and share it). The same thing that put everyone in a complete stir a few years ago when it was discovered that iPhones keep a log.

This is not some conspiracy theory. We all know Google collects data and it is naive to assume that they don't collect the log info of the Nest and use it in some way. They didn't buy it solely to live off the profit margin of the sales of the device or the boost that it would provide to their home automation business.

 

[C DM]

anti trust is coming.

Yip, because it's not related to anything like that at all.

 

[paulsrandall]

Good to see this, as the Nest Thermostat turns to toast on your normal everyday furnace. They'll last about 3-4 months, then its over and their techs will tell you your furnace is putting out too much voltage and/or current. I have a Trane XL80. What can be a simpler furnace to deal with than that. They need to make a more robust Thermostat to keep their business.

 

[WelshDog]

Good to see this, as the Nest Thermostat turns to toast on your normal everyday furnace. They'll last about 3-4 months, then its over and their techs will tell you your furnace is putting out too much voltage and/or current. I have a Trane XL80. What can be a simpler furnace to deal with than that. They need to make a more robust Thermostat to keep their business.

I have a 21 year old Trane XL and a Nest for years. Have had zero problems. Doesn't mean the product is good for everyone.
Manufacturing is not perfect, defects happen. Doesn't mean the product is bad for everyone.

 

[class77]

Because we ALL need an "intelligent" smoke alarm and central heating, don't we? Yeah... no... the phrase "sledgehammer to crack a nut" JUMPS into my mind. The more technology there is, the more there is to go wrong. Seriously, a "connected" smoke alarm? Listen okay, a smoke alarm DETECTS SMOKE - that's ALL it needs to do. If you need it to do more, it's going to become progressively more unlikely that it will be able to RELIABLY (kinda important for a LIFE SAVING device) do the one, SIMPLE thing it needs to do, which is to tell you "HEY! I DETECT SMOKE - TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION" - you're not going to be admiring how "cool" it is for being "intelligent", when your house is on fire.

I've been a qualified electronic engineer for 24 years, and an idiot for ZERO out of my 40 years. All these "intelligent" and "connected" gadgets just exist to validate the existence of smart phones, by dumb people.

A connected smoke alarm at a vacation house give you GREAT peace of mind!