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What’s going on at Nest? How about ‘what’s Next?’

This past week, Greg Duffy, the founder and former CEO of Dropcam published a piece on Medium in response to this piece in The Information on Nest Lab’s struggles, in which CEO Tony Fadell disparagingly referred to many former Dropcam employees…

Bruce HelbergJan 123 min read

5-Nines and Why I am not ready for the IOT

I’m an early adopter. I have drawers full of fitness trackers, digital cameras, kickstarter projects, and other electronic detritus. Remember the Psion Organizer that ran the original Symbian Mobile OS? Yup I had one of those too. It was the early 1990’s…

Dan PupiusDec 28, 20151 min read

Public Service Announcement for parents using Nest Cams as a baby monitor: Cover up the LED status light with Gaffer’s Tape to avoid bathing your baby in a blue glow when your internet glitches in the middle of the night.

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Patrick McKinnonMar 124 min read

Welcome to the future, are we too dumb for our own good?

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Ashu Joshi2 days ago3 min read

It is always easy to criticize

Could Nest struggles set back the IoT Movement?

I came across an exchange on Twitter that led me to this post Google’s Nest struggles could set back the IoT movement. The title makes for an ideal clickbait. Sounds so…

Larry Cornett5 days ago1 min read

The time that Tony Fadell sold me a container of hummus.

Arlo Gilbert

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It is true that there has been a shift in the concept of “ownership” and device lifespan with the smarter devices being created now. It used to be that you would upgrade over time as you were drawn to the new features of newer devices or your old devices slowly broke down.

Marvin HoffmannApr 4

The time that Tony Fadell sold me a container of hummus.

Arlo Gilbert

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Unbelievable. This is not acceptable. I am deeply concerned about what awaits for us as consumers in the future.

Henri CookFeb 71 min read

My First generation, battery-powered Nest Protect has a dead battery and even with new ones in it doesn’t work, is it broken?

This happened to me. I tried two brand new sets of AAs (x6) and it still just beeped saying it was out of power.

Joseph Green in The TechNewsApr 22 min read

Two Senior Executives Are Leaving from Google’s Nest

Recently, a reporter called Mark Bergen from Re…

Ashu Joshi2 days ago

Memo to Nest: How 3 connected hardware companies killed their devices

Stacey Higginbotham

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Good comparison of how other companies are handling sunsetting of hardware products. Nest is prominent company and they are bound to be scrutinized/criticized more compared to many others. In my opinion Nest is benefited the IoT movement more than the harm it is perceived to be doing as per the Wired article.