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Re:Google to Acquire Looker by shakna on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:36AM (#20114928)
> and it certainly “transitions” developer-targeted product/service startups into plain features (Firebase, WordLens, etc.

They recently killed "Works with Nest" in favour of an Assistant-backed API that doesn't currently implement what Google acknowledges to be the most popular features of "Works with Nest".

Google are more than willing to kill developer-oriented as consumer-oriented.

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Re:Google to Acquire Looker by agentdrtran on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:54AM (#20115122)
Nest is a consumer brand that sells consumer products.
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Re:Google to Acquire Looker by shakna on Thursday June 06, 2019 @02:34PM (#20117559)
The Nest wasn't shelved though, it was the developer API that got the half-hearted approach.
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Re:Google to Acquire Looker by guyzero on Thursday June 06, 2019 @11:52AM (#20115714)
Works with Nest had issues.
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