[digdigdag]

Beyond the serious dependability questions Google raises, I feel bad for the millions of units of OnHub, Nest, Stadia, and other hardware that are still perfectly functional, but rendered obsolete because of what amounts to high level, corporate financial decisions.

Any company engaging in mass market IoT sales should be compelled, for the sake of consumer confidence and protection, of an "exit plan" to allow fully localized control of these devices -- independent of an upstream server or system.

[donkeyd]

> I feel bad for the millions of units of [...] Stadia

In their defense, Stadia consisted of a ChromeCast and a controller which are both still useful.

[muyuu]

according to the article, they are refunding all Stadia hardware and software purchases done through their store

they don't say the same about their wiretap wifi router thingy

[nobody9999]

And are they reimbursing all the developers they conned^W enticed into developing exclusive content for Stadia?

[muyuu]

doubtful, it's Google after all