[shakna]

> and it certainly “transitions” developer-targeted product/service startups into plain features (Firebase, WordLens, etc.

They recently killed "Works with Nest" in favour of an Assistant-backed API that doesn't currently implement what Google acknowledges to be the most popular features of "Works with Nest".

Google are more than willing to kill developer-oriented as consumer-oriented.

[agentdrtran]

Nest is a consumer brand that sells consumer products.

[shakna]

The Nest wasn't shelved though, it was the developer API that got the half-hearted approach.

[guyzero]

Works with Nest had issues.