Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API

Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by barrkel on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @06:56AM (#19857641)

It's a typical Asshole Executive move: leverage successful feature to increase adoption of random other product, and then convert adoption increase into bonus and career opportunities, and hope that the loss in goodwill isn't noticed.

It was the same when G+ was created. Asshole Executives started jamming + buttons everywhere, including search results (!). They killed + in search queries as meaning "required". Every semi-successful feature had to get G+ integration to maximize the adoption of G+.

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Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by gaius_baltar on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @08:56AM (#19858370)

> Every semi-successful feature had to get G+ integration to maximize the adoption of G+.

Also, forced Youtube integration and G+ accounts being required even to rate Android apps.

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Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by ralfd on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @10:23AM (#19859035)

Funny that G+ was still ignored despite this effort.

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Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by rmc on Thursday May 09, 2019 @07:28AM (#19867178)

Some times people say "What if $COMPANY goes evil?". But if Google couldn't make G+ successful, then them going evil shouldn't be too concerning. They're clearly not as powerful as one could think

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Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by Tsiklon on Friday May 10, 2019 @03:07PM (#19881160)

I'd be inclined to believe it was ignored because of this effort.

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Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by josteink on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @02:18PM (#19861485)

s/Funny/Fair and just/

We shouldn’t reward scummy behaviour like this.

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