• themurphy@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    132
    ·
    8 days ago

    So Google is telling us, they cant make a product if there are standards or requirements for what they are doing?

    That means whatever US customers are buying, theres something in it, that does something illegal in EU.

    • Jesus@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 days ago

      I think most of the “requirements” they’re referring to are the technical ones, not governmental.

      North America’s residential HVAC landscape is pretty simply and dumb compared to a lot of what is happening in Europe. Dumb forced central air systems dominate residential HVAC.

      It sounds like they don’t like developing for all the weird hardware configurations that appear in Europe.

    • xavier666@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      40
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      8 days ago

      “Sorry, we can’t adjust the thermostat until we have audio evidence of whether the family is going through a divorce”

      • themurphy@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        8 days ago

        They call the product line ‘Nest’, because it’s where their data servers is getting nutrition from.