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Nest CEO Tony Fadell Steps Down After Tumultuous Two Years At Google (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Tony Fadell is stepping down as head of Nest Labs, just over two tumultuous years after selling the smart-home gadget maker to Google. Fadell will leave Nest immediately and be replaced by Marwan Fawaz, former executive vice president of Motorola Mobility where he served as CEO of Motorola Home, Nest said in a statement. Fadell will still advise Alphabet Inc. and Larry Page, the Google co-founder and chief executive officer of the holding company. Nest took longer than expected to release new products and a smoke and carbon monoxide detector was recalled due to software problems. When the company did release an updated product, the Nest Cam security camera in June 2015, Fadell admitted it had been a "grueling" year. In recent months, Nest employees complained publicly about Fadell's management, while claiming the business had missed sales targets, botched upgrades and delayed future products. Fadell said, "I don't know of any regrets that I have. To do what we do at the level we do it, no one's done it before. So you're bound to make mistakes."
Working on the nest crap, I'd rather be shuffled into working the cafeteria.
... things in Google has gotten from bad to worse
Not only this Indian CEO is not contributing any positive into Google (he just cruise along as the Google dreadnought is already at the midsea) this guy is breaking Google up
First the robotic department got effed --- the 'public story' about the departure of a certain top executive being the cause for the break up of the robotic arm of Google is just the cover, there is much more going on beneath the surface
Now it's the home automation arm
I do not know why Google use this Indian guy in the first place
I mean, this guy has neither the vision nor the charisma of the founders, nor the ability to steer a dreadnought as large as Google to the right course
Google is tanking, and will tank further, if they keep on using this Indian fella
Botched firmware pushes, absence of hardware watchdog, crappy QC, reliance on fundamentally unorthodox and unreliable energy harvesting schemes, counterproductive results /w heat pumps and complete absence of peer reviewed evidence that these control schemes result in any noticeable energy savings of any kind.
Bottom line appears to be nobody wants Google managed malware which barely even works stuck to their walls.
The rest of Googles products are the same... An advertising company providing unnecessarily complex over priced crap whose primary mission is not saving money or serving any practical purpose. The primary goal is spying on you for marketing purposes and other purposes defined by government subpoena/NSL.
I guess his contractual obligation is now fulfilled.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
... it comes with the territories
I personally have nothing against the Indians, I only say things that are true, and proven
Look around the corporate world --- no, not only those in the Tech fields, and not only in America - BUT IN EVERY SINGLE CORPORATE NICHE ALL OVER THE WORLD, except India, - Every. Single. Time. an Indian takes over the helm of a corporation you will see the. same. pattern. emerges --- MORE INDIANS GOT HIRED AND MORE LOCALS GOT FIRED
Look at Pepsico, look at Microsoft, look at Global Foundries, look at Reckitt Benckise, look at Mastercard, look at sanDisk, look at DBS Holdings, look at Adobe, look at Harman International
At every single case listed above, - and there are many many more cases which are not listed here to save spaces, - once an Indian becomes the CEO you will see an automatic JUMP in the employment of other Indian employees, and many of these 'newly hired' will get to occupy KEY POSITIONS throughout the company
I have been in the corporate world for over 5 decades and in the past 50 years or so the number of Indian CEO in Fortune 500 firms started from single digit to now, 3 digits
What is surprising is not the number of Indian CEOs, but the number of Indian VP, Sr. VP, Exec VP, or whatever key position --- the number jumped even higher
On the other hand, the locals --- no matter if it's the Americans in America or Germans in Germany, --- they will be given the pink slip and have the doors shut behind their asses, just so to make rooms for more Indians to get in
Again, I need to emphasize that I have nothing against the Indians --- all I am saying is purely based on proven cases
But of course, in the eyes of certain group of people I am already a FUCKING RACIST
In that case, if I have to be a 'racist' for stating the ugly truth, then Racist I shall be
It's nice when you have made your fortune and you can say "Enough" and go start over wherever your passion is, but then life is relative.
To not support hot water as part of the nest thermostat when they released in the UK because "the number of systems was too complicated" was more than a mistake (and also incorrect) - it allowed significantly inferior products to now dominate the market. I bought the Nest thermostat and love it, but it's completely ruined because of the lack of hot water control too. Yes, the later release fixed that, but that's an acknowledgement that their original analysis was flawed.
I need to replace my mains powered inter-linked smoke alarms too now (several) and was thinking of the Nest offering, but I'm starting to think it's a waste of time given what they just did with Revolv...
Captcha: slavery
Yes, this is happening everywhere - large cities and little towns
All it takes is to have one Indian takes over
For a division, that division changes
For a subsidiary, that subsidiary changes
For a company, the entire company changes, with key positions changed hand taking place first, then lower ranking position, and the process goes down, and down, and down, until there is no 'foreigner' left
Funny thing is, the so-called 'foreigners' in this context are The Locals
Imagine the effect --- 'Locals' can find themselves to be the 'foreigners' just because of a change in a key position --- and as I have stated in the above comment, this 'phenomena' are happening in corporate world everywhere
If there is any of you still in doubt, if you are an American, try take a look at the racial background of the staffs of your local motels (motor hotel)
The Indians are taking over, and they have been taking over the American motel industry
First they took over the north eastern states (New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont) and then spread southwards, to Florida
Then they start from the West Coast, started from Oregon, north to Washington State, southward to the Republic of California, and then they marched inwards
From the East Coast they marched west, from the West Coast they marched east
Now, even in the US heartland, in Kansas or Oklahoma or Missouri, you'll see Indian run motels
Now they have taken over almost all the 50 states (with exception for Alaska / Hawaii where the locals still at helm)
No matter if the motel belongs to a 'chain' (franchises) or if it is 'independent', start from the receptionists to the cleaning lady, more and more Indians are taking over
And that is just the START !!
Many supporting industries for the motel businesses --- from laundries (washing bedsheets) to garbage collections, too, the Indians are taking over
How the Indian make their moves?
For those in the motel business, they have some kind of 'cartel' (or syndicates) --- a guy landed on the US soil, got himself a motel, run it, import his family to help him, and then his family (when they got their greencards) will import MORE of their distant relatives to help them, and when their number hits the critical state, they EXPAND
They pooled their money, and go buy up another motel in a nearby town. Move part of their clan to run the new motel
So from one motel they expand to two, and then to four, to eight, to twenty, to fifty, to ....
They are attempting to do the same thing to the American (and all Western) corporations as well, albeit at a slower pace
Now the guerrilla war activity outside his home will commence to "get his head on a stick". Good riddance Mega Asshole! Die in a ditch.
Ha ha
MAKE YOUR DATA ACCESSIBLE FOR MORE THAN 10 DAYS IN THE PAST.
I don't even care about the money I spent on your fancy hardware. I'm not using it, because YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY GIVE ME the SAME DATA YOU COLLECT FOR YOURSELF, in a reasonable fashion.
Kindly f*k off, thanks. I'll just be here engineering a home automation ecosystem that understands the principles of how intelligent people do things, thanks.
PS can I get a refund on this thing? Hell, it's nice hardware, at least just take it back so you can repackage it and sell it to some other sucke^H^H^H^H^H customer cause you're not getting any more of my data... well, at least until you give me that data too, you unbelievable wombats.
Where Nest announcde they would brick a home automation hub they used to market.
And in order to save face, is offering a full refund
I read that headline as
Nest CEO Tony Falls Down Steps After Tumultuous Two Years At Google
I instantly got a mental image of Ford falling down those airplane stairs and wondered if anybody caught CEO Tony on camera.