Businessinsider:

Nest, a smart-home company owned by Google’s holding company Alphabet, is dropping support for a line of products — and will make customers’ existing devices completely useless.

It’s a move that has infuriated some customers, and raises worrying questions about the rights of consumers in the ever-more connected future.

This is going to be a continuing problem with the Internet of Things and why I don’t trust or want to use most of them. Many IoT devices simply won’t work without an internet connection. And some, like this product, can be obsoleted on a whim by the manufacturer.