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Re:Reports from Nest Secure customers who are unable to arm/... by nordsieck on Thursday May 17, 2018 @11:28AM (#17092128)
> Why don't these products use LAN or other local, non-cloud options?

For the equivalent effort to implement, most customer's revealed preferences are for new/better features rather than robust local intelligence.

This kind of event just doesn't happen very often.

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Re:Reports from Nest Secure customers who are unable to arm/... by kodablah on Thursday May 17, 2018 @12:07PM (#17092543)
> This kind of event just doesn't happen very often.

While it may not happen very often, I wonder how many customers (like me) they lose because the customers do not want their devices to even have internet access but still want local remote control (and are willing to sacrifice non-local remote control).

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Re:Reports from Nest Secure customers who are unable to arm/... by kemitche on Thursday May 17, 2018 @12:14PM (#17092633)
The answer is going to be "very few." Perhaps enough that a competitor has room to gain some share, but the average user, even for a product like Nest? Nah.
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