Please, please Google... don't spam me about starting a Google+ account when I'm just trying to turn the temp down a few degrees. I beg you.
And I beg all HN users to stop doing Google+ jokes as they're just as unfunny as they're unoriginal.
Google to Acquire Nest
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Re: Google to Acquire Nest
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I'd pay a few dollars more, maybe . At the end of the day as long as it isn't garishly awful I don't particularly care. For example, this one does everything I need and costs 10% of a nest: http://amzn.com/B002RL9BIM It actually has a backlight which is a step up from what I have today. It's just not important to me. Definitely not $250 important. I could definitely use a smarter thermostat, but my vision of the futu…
Wow. That is ugly . Imagine you just, like me, bought your dream house. In the den you installed new hardware floors and custom builtin bookshelves, that you built yourself in a few hundred hours, using a gorgeous hardwood and a stain you picked after testing more than a dozen shades. Which thermostat goes on the wall, about 15 inches from the bookselves. That POS or a Nest?
Can't tell if serious...
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Am I the only one that doesn't get chills up their spine whenever Google breaks into some new market? I see very little possible misuse of temperature preference (of all things...) and very great possible gains. The more intimately a service knows you, the more personalized and relevant data it can bring. And another thing, I am really sick and tired of tempering or being told to temper my enthusiasm for some new tec…
> I see very little possible misuse of temperature preference Imagine that the season is changing where you live. You could be expected to start shopping for warm clothes. Google can easily show you ads for pricier warm clothes, and move organic results to page 2. Or Google knows you boiler broke down. And shows ads of pricier service companies instead of the lower-priced local fixer who is now on page 4. The immedia…
First, somehow I don't think Google is going to do this. This is a company that keeps a multimillion dollar liability on their front page (the "I'm feeling lucky" button) out of culture and deference to tradition.
Secondly, what you suggest really isn't even misuse.
Re: Google to Acquire Nest
#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd pay a few dollars more, maybe . At the end of the day as long as it isn't garishly awful I don't particularly care. For example, this one does everything I need and costs 10% of a nest: http://amzn.com/B002RL9BIM It actually has a backlight which is a step up from what I have today. It's just not important to me. Definitely not $250 important. I could definitely use a smarter thermostat, but my vision of the futu…
Wow. That is ugly . Imagine you just, like me, bought your dream house. In the den you installed new hardware floors and custom builtin bookshelves, that you built yourself in a few hundred hours, using a gorgeous hardwood and a stain you picked after testing more than a dozen shades. Which thermostat goes on the wall, about 15 inches from the bookselves. That POS or a Nest?
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Re: Google to Acquire Nest
#395Nest has a post on their blog about this as well if you're interested:
https://nest.com/blog/2014/01/13/nest-google-and-you/
I am not sure why people always say Google makes companies suck. This may be the case sometimes, but it is that way for most companies who buy things if they try to make changes. Just look at YouTube. It has become quite successful, despite some poor decisions.
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I don't think that a 24/7 network connection of a customer that just paid $249 for a thermostat is that much of an monetization issue for a company like Google. (for comparison: more than 1 billion Android devices are currently connected to their servers 24/7/365)
Not a lot of screen real estate for ads on a Nest...
Well in addition to the color LCD, they do have speakers so Google could do audio ads.
Also, Google+ checkins when you walk into your house and G+ status updates when you adjust your temperature would increase the G+ 'active user' count for them.
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Please don't include decimals on that kind of number, it's intellectually dishonest.
? Only if you're incapable of telling the difference between commas and periods, I suppose.
> ? Only if you're incapable of telling the difference between commas and periods, I suppose.
There's a reason people don't use Prolog...
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Had Apple bought nest, you'd have to log into your icloud account to manage it, via your idevice, with no other management abilities available. Apple is absolutely horrible at playing well with others.
I'm ok with that. My issue with Google isn't Single-Sign-On, it's forcing every product into a social-network mold. Although I'm a happy user of Facebook and Twitter, I think SV's social obsession has largely been fruitless. Social does not improve most products and can actually harm them. And now I'm worrying about how "social" is going to be slapped on to my fire alarm.
Can't you create a Google Plus account without adding any friends so that it's only used a Single-Sign-On?
Re: Google to Acquire Nest
#400Am I the only one who thought "well, good for the Nest guys" followed by "too bad, it looked like a good product"?
I agree with "good for the Nest guys" but not "looked like a good product" and I don't mean that in a bad way, it may be a very well executed product but I cannot by any stretch of the imagination think why I would want my thermostat or smoke detector to be anything but stand-alone, dumb devices that do the one thing they were designed to do, and do it faultlessly.