<story><title>I&apos;m never investing in Google&apos;s smart home ecosystem again</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/google-smart-home-3319869/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>largepeepee</author><text>I feel like it&amp;#x27;s not only products that get left behind once Google gets bored.&lt;p&gt;Many of Google&amp;#x27;s software eventually get worse too. YouTube for example has killed most of their social features by removing dislikes, limited searchability of videos by channel, allowed bots to fill the comments. And Google search has so much malware in their ads that pop up first, that even govts are recommending ad blockers by default.&lt;p&gt;Such a pity, Google used to be the most respected of the SV big tech.</text></item><item><author>Corrado</author><text>I feel like this is just one more thing that Google leadership is failing at.  I have some similar examples to the ones in the article.  I recommended that my brother-in-law get a Google wifi AP some years ago.  Recently, I got an email from Google saying that they are no longer supporting it and after a certain date you will no longer be able to make changes to it.  WTF?!?  My Apple Airport Extreme is older than the Google AP and it still gets updates and I&amp;#x27;m free to change the settings at any time.&lt;p&gt;Another example was my old Nest thermostat.  I was so excited to up-my-game and replace the old, crappy thermostat with something that could change the temperature based on the weather forecast.  My happiness was short lived; Google purchased Nest and forced everyone to change over to their Google account.  Then features stopped working.  I finally had to remove the Nest and replace it with something else, mostly because Google just seemed to not care anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cogman10</author><text>Google is just shit.&lt;p&gt;As my company briefly decided to look into using them for a cloud provider it quickly became apparent that they are just awful stewards of any software that isn’t related to advertisements.&lt;p&gt;It’s beyond shocking how amateurish GCP is being operated.&lt;p&gt;My assumption is it comes down to really awful leadership.  They only care about making and selling new things.  You simply can’t trust that any piece of software or hardware will receive ongoing support, including their cloud offerings.</text></comment>
<story><title>I&apos;m never investing in Google&apos;s smart home ecosystem again</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/google-smart-home-3319869/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>largepeepee</author><text>I feel like it&amp;#x27;s not only products that get left behind once Google gets bored.&lt;p&gt;Many of Google&amp;#x27;s software eventually get worse too. YouTube for example has killed most of their social features by removing dislikes, limited searchability of videos by channel, allowed bots to fill the comments. And Google search has so much malware in their ads that pop up first, that even govts are recommending ad blockers by default.&lt;p&gt;Such a pity, Google used to be the most respected of the SV big tech.</text></item><item><author>Corrado</author><text>I feel like this is just one more thing that Google leadership is failing at.  I have some similar examples to the ones in the article.  I recommended that my brother-in-law get a Google wifi AP some years ago.  Recently, I got an email from Google saying that they are no longer supporting it and after a certain date you will no longer be able to make changes to it.  WTF?!?  My Apple Airport Extreme is older than the Google AP and it still gets updates and I&amp;#x27;m free to change the settings at any time.&lt;p&gt;Another example was my old Nest thermostat.  I was so excited to up-my-game and replace the old, crappy thermostat with something that could change the temperature based on the weather forecast.  My happiness was short lived; Google purchased Nest and forced everyone to change over to their Google account.  Then features stopped working.  I finally had to remove the Nest and replace it with something else, mostly because Google just seemed to not care anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackernewds</author><text>I had to delete the YouTube app simply because there was no way to disable Shorts. Those things are hopelessly addictive and unavoidable. If I wanted shorts, I&amp;#x27;d install TikTok.</text></comment>