Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API

Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by Robotbeat on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @09:16PM (#19855040)

Is this true? I’ve used open source printers from Lulzbot and others, and I haven’t had this experience. I think the moral of the story is to not put stuff on some closed platform in the cloud, not that you shouldn’t use company-provided hardware.

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Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by cortesoft on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @10:14PM (#19855338)

I think his point was that it is hard to keep a company going making just the hardware. The margins are low, and customers only have to pay you once, to get the hardware.

It is hard to make a lasting business off that, which is why everyone wants to do subscription services.

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Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by TeMPOraL on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @04:59AM (#19857075)

It used to be the only way to make business in not so long past. People made money selling products just fine.

Maybe it's because people trying to get rich quick playing the VC lottery are sucking the oxygen out for people who want to just do a honest to God, "payment in exchange for providing value" type of business.

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Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by dreamcompiler on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @09:12AM (#19858485)

Yes, I think it's the VC mindset. It's "grow fast and exit quick" rather than "build a sustainable business."

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