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Clodfobble

10-08-2013 12:02 PM

Will it nark on your kids for you? "Attention homeowner, it appears your teen son consistently burns toast in his bedroom late at night."

Pete Zicato

10-11-2013 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Pete Zicato (Post 766846)

Glatt, I'm sorry to say I don't think it's going to take off at that price.

I generally only interact with my thermostat twice a year, when we switch on the heat in the fall, and when we turn on the AC in the summer. It's a pain in the ass to program, but I only do it twice a year.

If this was priced just a little higher than other programmable thermostats, it might make it, but not at this price.

Obviously, these are marketed to some type of person who isn't me. The company is still going strong. And they seem to be selling well on Amazon.

xoxoxoBruce

11-17-2013 11:58 PM

Al Gore likes the Nest.

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When Al Gore talks, people listen. On Friday, it took an off-hand reference by the former vice president to his investment in "Nest" to send the stock for the failed red light camera and speed camera firm Nestor soaring 14,900 percent.

"There are a lot of great companies out there, and our general counsel's always cautioning my partners and me not to be caught giving portfolio advice," Gore said on Yahoo Finance's Daily Ticker show. "But I'll pick one out of the blue, a product that you wouldn't think of as a great opportunity, and that's a thermostat, NEST, is a terrific company."

:lol2:

glatt

01-13-2014 03:33 PM

Google just bought the company for $3.2 billion. I wonder if my brother had any shares?

lumberjim

01-13-2014 06:34 PM

So your brother works for Google now?

glatt

01-13-2014 08:28 PM

Yeah. Well, when the deal goes through anyway.

I wonder what Google is going to do with my temperature data now.

Spexxvet

01-14-2014 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 889301)

I wonder what Google is going to do with my temperature data now.

Watch you. Or track your heating/cooling pattern so that HVAC adds will pop up in your searches. :tinfoil: ?

BigV	01-14-2014 10:45 AM

Yah beat me to it. I thought of you and your brother and this thread this morning, but you scooped me. Congrats to your brother.
:-)

xoxoxoBruce

01-16-2014 10:56 PM

An editorial in The New Yorker, is not happy about this acquisition.

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But when you probe deeper, you realize they’re actually getting much more. Jokes aside (like needing a Google+ account to change the temperature in your house or getting ads for fire extinguishers while your house burns down), there’s something subtly different happening here. This isn’t just another corporate giant acquiring a well-loved startup and its users.

It’s not just an acquisition — it’s an annexation. The kind that involves planting a flag. Because now we’re talking physical territory, which is the case as the internet inexorably and increasingly reaches into the real world. Simply put: People invited Nest into their houses. Not Google.

monster

10-11-2014 08:19 PM

An Environmental warrior fried of mine just "liked" Nest on Facebook. She doesn't do shit like that lightly, must be good....

glatt

10-11-2014 08:47 PM

Cool. In hindsight, I'd say it's worth the high purchase cost. At least with our HVAC system.

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