Free_Physics@alien.topB to Home Automation@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 1 year agoHow bad business broke the smart homewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@kbin.social
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minus-squarenevermorefu@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoGoogle TV (Logitech Revue) made me weary of Google products Killing Nest integrations made me move away from Google smart devices Removing Google Play Music so I couldn’t play my music on Google Home made me think about switching from Google completely Killing Hangouts got me to switch to iPhone after having Android since the 2010 If there was another affordable smart speaker that didn’t constantly show me ads (Alexa) I’d get out of their ecosystem completely I won’t buy anything Google now and at work (software engineer) I push back on using anything Google for the reasons above.
Google TV (Logitech Revue) made me weary of Google products
Killing Nest integrations made me move away from Google smart devices
Removing Google Play Music so I couldn’t play my music on Google Home made me think about switching from Google completely
Killing Hangouts got me to switch to iPhone after having Android since the 2010
If there was another affordable smart speaker that didn’t constantly show me ads (Alexa) I’d get out of their ecosystem completely
I won’t buy anything Google now and at work (software engineer) I push back on using anything Google for the reasons above.