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Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use by wolco2 on Monday November 02, 2020 @08:55AM (#24968127)
Nest sold you a poorly designed product. If they had sold you something that could be plugged into any network then you could reuse it. From the start the product had a big fault google buying it just highlights that design flaw.
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Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use by m4rtink on Monday November 02, 2020 @10:27AM (#24969084)
For the record, there have been cases of companies (IIRC Cisco wifi routers) that attempted to do this retroactively - pushing a firmware update that "helpfully" made the hardware cloud managed only.

So indeed, buying open API stuff only is a good start, unfortunately one still needs to be vigilant.

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