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Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by lrem on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @02:59AM (#19856505)
They stopped selling it, once the stockpile run dry and the demand didn't warrant making another batch. Which was when I found a shop with them in stock and bought three. I believe they'll stay supported for a while.

Disclaimer: I work at Google, but don't have insider knowledge on this.

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Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by StudentStuff on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @04:13AM (#19856844)
When will Google stop updating Chromecast Audio? As we've seen with recent Chromebook mass-end of supporting, Google is happy to leave devices bought 18+ months ago in a vulnerable, insecure state even when it'd be easy to keep life support on (like delivering a secure browser to these perfectly fine laptops, or providing minimal security patches to embedded devices).

It seems like Google really can't handle long term support of anything that isn't wildly successful (200+ million users), and even for those things that hit said benchmark, long term support is bumpy, inconsistent and unpredictable.

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