Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support

Re:Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support by MattGaiser on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:21PM (#24924777)

For the day to day user products I can see that not impacting sales much. But is their unwillingness to commit hurting GCP adoption? The people who would participate in adopting GCP (except in corporate environments) are people who might also frequent here.

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Re:Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support by deadmutex on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:26PM (#24924839)

GCP is different though. Much better SLA.

It is almost like saying you can't trust computers in medical field because consumer windows 95 machines crash.

Disclosure: Work at Google.

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Re:Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support by baskire on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:34PM (#24924931)

Steve Yegge, a former Googler & GCP Customer begs to differ. From my experience GCP does deprecate a lot of libraries, SDKs, and APIs. None of which are covered in the SLA policy.

https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-depre...

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Re:Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support by packetlost on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:35PM (#24924939)

Yeah no. I know of several cases where people have not even considered GCP as an option because of both Google's and GCP's support reputation.

Google has squandered their goodwill with the community the last 10 years, and it's always the current/former Googler's who can't seem to see it.

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Re:Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support by hobs on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:39PM (#24924974)

You might want to work somewhere else so you hear some differing opinions, pretty much nobody I know wants to implement on top of google products including GCP because of the perceived churn.

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Re:Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support by deadmutex on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:32PM (#24925799)

FWIW, before I worked at Google, we selected GCP over AWS/Azure. Was very happy with the result.

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Re:Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support by BigBubbleButt on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:45PM (#24926205)

What were you using it for? I'll be upfront in saying that my experience with GCP was awful, but I can appreciate that others found it useful and would be curious to learn more.

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Re:Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support by carlosf on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @07:19PM (#24925286)

I'm a Cloud Developer / Sysadmin and I've heard some bad stuff regarding GCP's support from my peers. Not considering it anytime soon.

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