After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat

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After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat
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I'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".

That said 16-year-old software is not that old. If it's built using sane language choices it should actually be functioning and modern today.

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.

Wtf is a smart scale?

Every time somebody steps on the scale, it identifies who they are, it logs their weight, body fat percentage etc puts it into an app for historical viewing

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