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by ekianjo 4630 days ago
Hahah. You are the one full of anger because someone has a different opinion than you, it seems. Look, I don't know how to spell it to you if you don't know how to read my post. I mentioned "LOW INVOLVEMENT" in big letters so that I'd hope you would read it, but it seems like I wasted my time.

> I've installed them for student tenants, thinking I was doing a great thing and maybe preventing them from killing themselves with an unattended cooking fire, and you know what, two months later when I went around every single one, every single flat I manage, had knocked their alarms down

This sentence proved that you are not a regular person who uses only a single or two smoke detectors for their home. So you are not relevant. Almost nobody is like you. I have two smoke detectors and they only triggered once in 7 years living in the same place, and I had no issue whatsoever to stop them. This is probably in line with most people who have LOW INVOLVEMENT with these kind of things. You know, when you only use something like once a year or less?

> The world is about to explode with companies like Nest - and new products and opportunities will emerge to improve every single facet of our life.

If you think everyone is going to buy the best of the best in every category of prodcuts and spend all of their cash on things they don't really care about, you are in for a big surprise.

> What, are you angry because they made such a good product?

I'm not angry, I was merely explaining my point of view and I have no idea why you take my view as one of an angry person or something. I found their video nice, they did a good job, I'm just saying it won't change the fact that most people will not care and will not even know about it and keep going on with their business as usual.

> And people like you are going to look like the worst kind of assholes when the transformation becomes obvious.

Actually you are going to look like the worst kind of asshole for calling me names while I have never attacked you personally. That's ad hominem at best and frankly this is not surprising for someone who makes blanket statements about everything.

Cheers.

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I'm sorry if I lost my temper, I've tried to understand your position here and respond calmly and reasonably to you but clearly I've failed.