Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from Oct 25

Serious question: how long do you expect cloud hardware vendors to support the servers for their products? 10 years? 20? 30?

As long as the company or a company buys their liabilities is solvent. Companies are in the business of providing value to the consumer not generating ewaste for a tax writeoff. If they want to do that the consumer should know that the hardware will break in x years and they can pay for ewaste disposal or bundle that into the price of the item. Bitrot is propaganda. It's absolute insanity that google can write off profits from their monopoly position by funding a never ending stream of failed projects that are both environmentally and socially harmful This company just spent $75 billion on cloud hardware while killing cloud iot devices as "unprofitable" when they mean "unprofitable for them" they don't eat the cost of having to replace their thermostats during the largest unemployment crisis in the tech space ever. You make it make sense.