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Re:Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life by amscanne on Monday May 09, 2022 @02:50PM (#31318203)
That's just a simple example. When the Nest came out, it felt like an amazing no brainer product to me:

1) The thermostat drives most home energy usage. It's probably above $1000/yr for most households.

2) The existing programmable thermostats were awful and no one used them effectively. There's a ton of waste as a result.

3) The smart thermostat can easily pay for itself in a year or two just by having a better UX that you'll actually use. That's an amazing value proposition.

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Re:Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life by allturtles on Monday May 09, 2022 @02:57PM (#31318275)
I use the programmable UX on my existing $40 dollar thermostat. It works fine and it's not that hard to use. It only ever requires adjusting when we leave for/return from vacation, and takes ~1 minute to get back into the right state each time.
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