I’m glad to hear it, but it’s going to take a lot more for me to trust that Google isn’t going to murder a promising product in its tracks because it doesn’t instantly make a billion dollars.
I’m still salty about all my old Google Home speakers dying at the same time.
One of my minis too… I’ve replaced it with a Harman Kardon Citation One. Overkill? Yes, but it’s not Google’s and they’re quite cheap on eBay. Sony makes decent alternatives too.
At this point, anyone that gets themselves locked into a proprietary ecosystem that falls out from under them only has themselves to blame. So many corpses of “use it with our app” laying in the ditches over the past few years should tell you something, but there’s always someone doing it because it’s convenient, then crying when it gets bricked a year later.
Just use Home Assistant and take on the pain of open standards equipment. Everything you buy will still be useful a decade from now.
I’m glad to hear it, but it’s going to take a lot more for me to trust that Google isn’t going to murder a promising product in its tracks because it doesn’t instantly make a billion dollars.
I’m still salty about all my old Google Home speakers dying at the same time.
It’s one thing for google to kill apps, but nuking hardware like that should be illegal. Probably is in the EU…?
I would also be turned the hell off if that happened to me, yikes.
OMG you too? I had two minis die the same week. WTF.
Yep! Minis also. I’m sure there was a bad update that killed a bunch of them, so I have a bad taste in the mouth for their smart home hardware now.
One of my minis too… I’ve replaced it with a Harman Kardon Citation One. Overkill? Yes, but it’s not Google’s and they’re quite cheap on eBay. Sony makes decent alternatives too.
At this point, anyone that gets themselves locked into a proprietary ecosystem that falls out from under them only has themselves to blame. So many corpses of “use it with our app” laying in the ditches over the past few years should tell you something, but there’s always someone doing it because it’s convenient, then crying when it gets bricked a year later.
Just use Home Assistant and take on the pain of open standards equipment. Everything you buy will still be useful a decade from now.