Tariffs kill the Starling Home Hub, Google Nest’s best bridge to Apple Home

The makers of the Starling Home Hub say they have discontinued the popular device. | Image: Starling

I have bad news for ecosystem straddlers who use Google Nest products in their smart homes but rely on iPhones and Apple Home for control: the much-loved Starling Home Hub has been discontinued. 

In a message on its website, Starling said it can no longer manufacture the hub due to “rapidly rising costs of doing business for small US-based product companies like us (most significantly...