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Re:Google's Nest is disabling some of its customers' old sma... by jasonlaramburu on Monday April 04, 2016 @06:16PM (#11426202)
Not sure the analogy works. You would still need to pay some carrier an ongoing service fee to use your cell phone. Here we are talking about a connected device where the software service is offered for free.
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Re:Google's Nest is disabling some of its customers' old sma... by jpindar on Monday April 04, 2016 @07:06PM (#11426482)
Only if you want to use the carrier.

I have old phones that can't make telephone calls, but they still work fine as connected devices via wifi. They still work as cameras, mp3 players, gaming machines etc.

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