That is true, but my smart TV and smart scale both got something like 5 years of updates. Who buys a new scale every 5 years? My parents still have a scale from the 90s that works fine.
Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 month agoI’m in my house right now with a perfectly working thermostat that’s 70 years old.
And given the mechanism of action it will continue working in another 70 years.
16 years for hardware used inside of homes is a ridiculously, absurdly, short lifetime. Even for a vehicle that would be pushing the edge of “too short”.
slimarev92@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The article says that offline functions will continue to work. So they’ll just become regular thermostats.