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Amazon Will Soon Stop Selling Google's 'Nest' Smart Home Products (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes The Verge:
Nest products won't be sold by Amazon.com any longer once current stock runs out, according to a report from Business Insider. Amazon last year declined to offer some of Nest's newer products like the Nest Cam IQ and latest-generation smart thermostat. After weeks of simply ignoring the products and being unresponsive to Nest, Amazon informed the company of its decision by phone late in the year and said the directive "came from the top," something Nest took to mean it had been handed down by CEO Jeff Bezos. There has been no direct confirmation of this, however.
As a result, Nest has decided to halt further restocks at Amazon once remaining product inventory is exhausted. It's unclear whether third-party sellers will continue selling Nest gadgets, but Amazon itself will not. In removing itself from Amazon, Nest's reasoning is that the powerful retailer should be selling its entire product family or nothing at all.
The Verge calls it a "dumb, anti-consumer feud."
As a result, Nest has decided to halt further restocks at Amazon once remaining product inventory is exhausted. It's unclear whether third-party sellers will continue selling Nest gadgets, but Amazon itself will not. In removing itself from Amazon, Nest's reasoning is that the powerful retailer should be selling its entire product family or nothing at all.
The Verge calls it a "dumb, anti-consumer feud."
As far as I'm concerned, anything that slows the adoption of privacy-stealing, security-hole-ridden IOT gear like Nest, (and Alexa for that matter), is ultimately smart and pro-consumer. Putting this kind of thing in the hands of the average non-tech-savvy person is kind of like emptying a box of knives on a nursery-school floor. Somebody's gonna get hurt, and the damage won't necessarily be limited to the kids who actually pick up the knives and start playing with them.
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...from the manufacturers' websites. Many electronics companies now sell their goods directly, online thereby cutting out middle-men like Amazon. An added bonus is that the manufacturers often include the cost of post and packaging and returns in the price. I've recently bought stuff online from Apple, Sennheiser, and Bose, and have been very happy with their delivery times and returns policies.
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