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Google is killing first and second gen Nest Thermostats

36 eyeareque 11 8/26/2025, 11:21:39 PM support.google.com ↗

Comments (11)

danielscrubs · 4m ago

I question how good the engineers are if it costs so much to keep those services running.

I guess the only way out is to vote with your wallet.

YouTube and Gmail are the only Google services left in my life.

RedComet · 4m ago

Not very "carbon friendly". But the recycler they mention will probably kindly ship it do a foreign landfill.

BobbyTables2 · 1h ago

They could at least have the decency to unlock+open-source the thing.

Offering a 50% discount on the next generation sounds pretty shitty.

gnabgib · 5h ago

Discussion (82 points, 4 months ago, 72 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43802574

ElijahLynn · 3h ago

Damn...

And also,

> We’ll reach out to eligible users in the US and Canada for the Nest Learning Thermostat (4th gen) at a special price: $149.99 [219.99 CAD] (nearly 50% off).

However, we got a Nest from the Oregon Energy trust for $50 I think. So, not a great price.

protimewaster · 2h ago

This kind of thing drives me crazy, and I think it helps to highlight some of the money-grubbing nature of the tech industry.

Years ago, you'd buy a cheap thermostat and it'd last 30 years or whatever. But the tech industry had to improve that by instead making them last less than half as long and cost substantially more.

I understand the idea that smart stuff is cool or whatever, but it feels like it'd be smarter if it lasted as long as the thing they're trying to replace...

Fezzik · 18m ago

Those same bulletproof thermostats are still sold everywhere. And are dirt cheap. I blame the consumer more than the producer for the proliferation of these products. This is one area where your options were never limited and you’d have to be a dunce and/or been paying zero attention to how tech companies have operated for decades to think these devices were not going to be made useless at a regular rate.

anon6362 · 2h ago

It's one of the problems created by allowing billionaire technofeudal overlords to do whatever they want. They believe they are entitled to anything and everything, and so everything they make turns to shit to fool you into maintaining it and rebuying it faster and faster.

daymanstep · 1h ago

Planned obsolescence is as old as the light bulb.

anon6362 · 1h ago

That's a given. It is, but it's not a binary on/off. It's a sliding continuum of enshitification and the current trend is to rapidly increasing towards worse. It rarely/never goes back the other way.

ravenstine · 2h ago

I am never connecting a thermostat to the internet or using one that strictly requires the internet.