Google Officanted Nest – Can Gemini save the remainder?

This week, Google announced that it has I finally completed Transfer “Better” to smart home devices that carry a nest from the Nest application to Google Home app. This means Google Nest devices It should not You must bounce between two applications anymore and can Finally, delete the nest application. (The best qualification “is to do some heavy lifting, and some features are still in Google General inspection Beta.)

The fact that one of the largest technology companies in the world More than three years Let’s transfer a handful of devices to a new application, frankly, amazing. In conjunction with the slow and painful death of NST devices, you will forgive that Google may give up the smart home. However, with GOOGLE HOME Escapes. On October 1, something is coming. The question is: Will the time be too small, it is too late?

The past five years have been trying, through anyone committed to Google Home Ecosystem and NST. from Stopping products and Increase subscription prices to Remove features and Google’s assistant decrease On Nest Smart Speaks, there was not much to be happy with it, as well as Google Home Megathread On Redit.

Behind the scenes, the Google Home team re -focused its efforts on the programs, with a constant renewal of Google Home appAnd that has been very improved and can now access more surfaces (TV devicesand Cardiac On tablets and phones). But Google’s efforts seem to be stuck in the opposite direction.

While it continues to maintain the iconic learning thermostat alive through the fourth generation model and New shapeGoogle To download sales From the third generation on its site and its Support for previous forms stopped. The company also stopped Live smoke protection and Co alarm (It is still the greatest smart home tool I have ever), A security warning systemthe Lock the nest x yeland Nest Cam IQ series.

These were products that define the category that helped make the smart house actually feel smart. Now, all the designed nest devices and develop them Founders Tony Vadel Matt Rogers and their team went.

In their place, we have been handed over secret alternatives, made of Google, but there is no Nest ingenuity or focus on the design. New Yale Smart Lock with MATTER Feel plastic and inspiring compared to elegant metal finishes on the Nest X Yale lock – and does not integrate with Google’s replacement for Nest Secure, ADT Plus SystemIn the same way. (Open Nest X Yale can disarm Nest Secure to do this using ADT, you need a Yale lock is different.) ADT system is completely different from A safe nestEspecially in terms of features and implementation.

the The first SC5 Smoke Warning Google now recommends replace the Nest Protect Smart, and comes in Battery and solid modelsAnd it can be replaced for your old protection (use the same back plate and interconnection with the protection of the nest). But it cannot match the clean Protect design, the smart path of the path, or the way it is doubled as a sensor in Google Home.

It was crazy to see Google dismantling the excellent devices and the road map that I inherited at that time Bought a nestWhile you try at one time to make Google Home in a file Life smart home platform. The ideal smart house is open homes, where all products work together regardless of the manufacturer – but it cannot be denied that ecosystems work better when the products are designed within them specifically for them. This is what Google had with Nest. This is what I spent the last half.

Then there are loudspeakers and smart shows. Google has not been released New since 2021And the current crop is in a bad condition, due to a large extent to Slow deterioration for the Google assistant Google also turned into Gemini. Users complained These basic orders have stopped working, took procedures, and the responses were slow or incorrect. It has become so bad that Google Home, Anish Katukaran, Public apologize. There is even an investigation into the capabilities The semester suit.

Innovation in her home speakers was not an enormous Miss. It is the smart home gate – and now the most obvious way for Google to place Gemini Ai in front of millions of people, especially with Chatgpt everywhere on smartphones. release Pixel In 2023 – it was supposed to be the device you heard Nest Hub But it was diluted in something No one needs – It was our first hint that Google Home lacks a clear strategy of devices or a great support from Google as a whole.

It can be about to change. The leaks indicate, some directly from Google New security cameras and doorsBesides Smart speakerComing on October 1. I would also like to see a new smart show, but I don’t hope to think about the Pixel Tablet disaster. On another trip away from the nest, the speaker will It is said Back to Google Home brand – name Google’s first smart speakers Before the company gets a nest.

It is logical that speakers and cameras are now the categories of devices on which Google focuses on – it can easily inject Gemini, which Google seems to be interested in now. The cameras, in particular, will be an integral part of any wider smart household efforts. Amnesty International Vision Language Models Is the new hot thingWhere they can provide this decisive piece of smart homework: context. This is something that has already started Google Add to the existing nest camerasAnd we also see it With Amazon’s Alexa Plus and Ring. Rumors of that Apple will make cameras for Apple Home This trend is also suitable.

However, along with Gemini injection, the nest cameras will not seem to get a large update, but just a resolution to 2K. This is a shame, because Google has not updated it greatly since 2021, and those models It was reduced from the intelligence line. One of the areas where Google has been more competitive in the video door parts. While not good like The original nest hellothat it Wire It is the best choice for me.

as Gemini at homeGoogle LLM glow for Google Home, I am skeptical that it will be its savior. While more voice assistants in the conversation are a huge upgrade, so far, LLMS has it Struggle with the basic smart household items Run the lights, play procedures, play music. Even if Gemini is nails, Google still needs good devices to put them in people’s homes. This is what it was with a nest.

For users who have long loved like me, it was painful to watch the smart home platform that we bought in getting parts. Nest hardware has been the golden standard for years: coherent, elegant and mostly reliable. New Google Strategy – to be The program that runs the smart house And relying on third-party devices outside the cameras and centers-it may be logical in The era of the inter -operation of the articleBut it leaves its loyal customers behind them.

Today, if you want a strong ecosystem led by devices, it is best to look at Ecobe, which builds a Daughter, albeit smaller, a group of devicesOr StatesIt has dozens of affordable and innovative tools and completely adheres to the material.

Google Smart Home Open, supported by MATTER and Gemini, looks good in theory and is compatible with the company’s wider strategy. But I am still suffering to overcome the fact that Google has been wasted one of the best ecosystems of devices in this industry. The original nest has died. If Google Home can rise to the name level, it is still a large open question.