Re:Reports from Nest Secure customers who are unable to arm/...
by cptskippy on Thursday May 17, 2018 @01:25PM
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Reduced complexity and higher reliability.
Instead of your apps having to detect if they're local or remote to the device and then implementing a different protocol based on locality, they instead just always call out to a cloud based location.
They don't have to devote resources to maintaining 2 APIs for every product and can instead focus on reliability and robustness of the one interface.
> it's just a crap design from a usability standpoint.
I would argue the opposite. By having to support both cloud and local communication, you're introducing complexity and the possibility that APIs could diverge in functionality and reliability.
Instead of your apps having to detect if they're local or remote to the device and then implementing a different protocol based on locality, they instead just always call out to a cloud based location.
They don't have to devote resources to maintaining 2 APIs for every product and can instead focus on reliability and robustness of the one interface.
> it's just a crap design from a usability standpoint.
I would argue the opposite. By having to support both cloud and local communication, you're introducing complexity and the possibility that APIs could diverge in functionality and reliability.