Kinda surprising that:
(a) Nest, the multi-billion dollar company could not build in a secure localized redundancy that comes online when the main service goes down
(b) That they are comfortable not updating users AS SOON AS their service is down. They should have a sorta emergency beacon when this happens.<p>Home automation may seem trivial, but as we come to rely on it for more and more things, I shudder to think that an outage in the future may cause the stove to stay on even when the smart-recipe&#x2F;smart-thermostat indicates that it should no longer do so