About a year ago, Google said it would pay $3.2 billion for Nest, a company that had sold fewer than a million connected thermostats and fewer than 440,000 connected smoke detectors… Read more »
Should the smart home be programmable, or should it react to your needs before you even recognize them? A Time package shows the conflict between current smart home visions. Read more »
In an interview, Nest’s CEO tells us why a union with Google is a good idea (hint: infrastructure and scale) and how he can now get back to designing killer product… Read more »
Creating hardware not only means raising more funding than a typical app startup, but hiring manufacturing experts and building up infrastructure, according Nest founder Tony Fadell. Read more »