You need a government regulator to stop large companies from buying up lots of small companies and adding them to this risk pool.
I bought 3 Nest thermostats long before Google bought them. I wouldn’t have done so after the buyout.
If google bricks my thermostats because my kid does something dumb on YouTube (through the linked tv accounts) that will suck.
I suppose regulators could also prevent companies from bundling lockouts in that shutting down gmail for YouTube problems. Or shutting down Nest for gmail problems, etc.
The phone company can’t just randomly cut off service and ghost me. Regulators are the reason for that, as I’m sure they’d love to if they could.
I bought 3 Nest thermostats long before Google bought them. I wouldn’t have done so after the buyout.
If google bricks my thermostats because my kid does something dumb on YouTube (through the linked tv accounts) that will suck.
I suppose regulators could also prevent companies from bundling lockouts in that shutting down gmail for YouTube problems. Or shutting down Nest for gmail problems, etc.
The phone company can’t just randomly cut off service and ghost me. Regulators are the reason for that, as I’m sure they’d love to if they could.