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04-05-2016, 11:19 AM
What Nest's product shutdown says about the Internet of Things
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Nest is dropping support (http://revolv.com/) for one of its products on May 15. More than just dropping support, the product will cease to work entirely.
The product isn’t one of Nest’s branded lines – it’s **t the thermostat, the ***** alarm or the Nest Cam. Instead it's the Revolv smart home hub.
Nest acquired Revolv in 2014 and stopped selling the product – which was one of the early home automation hubs (http://mashable.com/2013/09/16/smart-home-automation/)*– almost immediately.
SEE ALSO: My favorite tech at CES was a smart fridge — but I'd never buy one (http://mashable.com/2016/01/14/smart-home-pressures/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
But the service – which was tapped into the Internet of Things with an iOS app that allowed users to control things like lights, locks and smart speaker systems – continued to work. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/04/revolv-smart-home-shutdown/)
More about Internet Of Things (http://mashable.com/category/internet-of-things/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Nest (http://mashable.com/category/nest/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Smart Home (http://mashable.com/category/smart-home/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/zSJyYTdi2BA
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Nest is dropping support (http://revolv.com/) for one of its products on May 15. More than just dropping support, the product will cease to work entirely.
The product isn’t one of Nest’s branded lines – it’s **t the thermostat, the ***** alarm or the Nest Cam. Instead it's the Revolv smart home hub.
Nest acquired Revolv in 2014 and stopped selling the product – which was one of the early home automation hubs (http://mashable.com/2013/09/16/smart-home-automation/)*– almost immediately.
SEE ALSO: My favorite tech at CES was a smart fridge — but I'd never buy one (http://mashable.com/2016/01/14/smart-home-pressures/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
But the service – which was tapped into the Internet of Things with an iOS app that allowed users to control things like lights, locks and smart speaker systems – continued to work. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/04/revolv-smart-home-shutdown/)
More about Internet Of Things (http://mashable.com/category/internet-of-things/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Nest (http://mashable.com/category/nest/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Smart Home (http://mashable.com/category/smart-home/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/zSJyYTdi2BA