Google Buys Home Automation Company Nest

JDG1980 writes "Google just announced that they will be purchasing Nest, a company best known for their 'smart' thermostats and smoke detectors, for $3.2 billion in cash. What will this mean for Nest devices going forward — greater integration with Android, perhaps?"

Comments

Track your every move

[Anonymous Coward]

What they'll do is track when you're home, what temperature you like your house, whether you're cold at night, etc, and then use it to advertise at you. Isn't that what Google does with everything?

Re:Track your every move

[DaHat]

You forgot "requiring Google+ integration for managing your NEST".

Re:Track your every move

[phrostie]

Remember when it wasn't Google's fault that their street view cars intercepted your emails?

Nest uses your home network.
now it won't matter if you're on gmail or not.

Re:Track your every move

[icebike]

Nor would the under $20 fully programmable, been around since dirt, standard as the day is long, conventional wall thermostat.

Come on for pete sake, turning on the heat when its cold is the job of a thermostat. They've been doing it since the 30s, and became programmable since the late 70s. Don't act so impressed that your thermostat actually worked.

You've paid in excess of 15 times what you needed to pay for program-ability, only to have it be totally dependent on the internet!

There's one born every minute.

$3.2B

[Anonymous Coward]

Ridiculous sum of money for Nest. Google is starting to look like a has been trying to buy their way to relevance like Microsoft.