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[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 48 points 10 months ago

This decision was made so that we can continue to provide the best possible experience

The best possibile experience is having a single app that can do the whole house, not a broken proprietary app that occupies 200 mb of space on the phone and that takes 5 seconds to start because of its fancy splash screen

Don't understand this, they are actively kicking out customers

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 32 points 10 months ago

Ah yes best possibile experience is this: (from the ars Technica article about it)

"Sadly, this app now displays advertisement at the very top and I cannot find a way to disable it," writes one Play Store reviewer (Google doesn't provide links to reviews). "This is very disturbing and on top of it, it moves my garage opening button out of the visible part of the screen. So to use it I now have to first look at the ads, then scroll down and hope to find my button."

[-] GoTeamBoobies@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

This is what it looks like now. The ad always occupies that space at the top

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 1 points 9 months ago

Ahhh, subscription for being integrated in a car. While instead with home assistant you could just say hey [assistant] open the door

Too bad they have a monopoly in the NA market

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