The short story is that google released the Nest alarm system a while ago and as part of their partnership with ADT they have decided to kill the product. ADT is generally known to be the most shady and questionable company, their billing practices are suspect and there are a ton of complaints about them. When I tried to get my ADT activated that was already installed in my house the tech they sent out told me I had to pay $8,000 to update the system and I found out there was nothing wrong with it. They were literally going to remove the system and reinstall the same system. What bothers me about Googles decision is that they are not only stopping sales, they are killing the servers and rendering the hardware useless. There’s no reason not to release open source firmware for the hardware, sensors (etc), but in order to drive sales to ADT Google is turning tons of perfectly functional hardware into e-waste. They are burning their customers who already purchased an expensive system from them and creating more waste, just to increase profits. Google used to be a good company but recently they have turned into a complete garbage company. We are removing all Google products from our house as they die.
