Fancy new thermostat - Page 4

Clodfobble · 10-08-2013, 12:02 PM

Will it nark on your kids for you? "Attention homeowner, it appears your teen son consistently burns toast in his bedroom late at night."

Pete Zicato · 10-11-2013, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

Glatt, I'm sorry to say I don't think it's going to take off at that price.

I generally only interact with my thermostat twice a year, when we switch on the heat in the fall, and when we turn on the AC in the summer. It's a pain in the ass to program, but I only do it twice a year.

If this was priced just a little higher than other programmable thermostats, it might make it, but not at this price.

Obviously, these are marketed to some type of person who isn't me. The company is still going strong. And they seem to be selling well on Amazon.

xoxoxoBruce · 11-17-2013, 11:58 PM

Al Gore likes the Nest.

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When Al Gore talks, people listen. On Friday, it took an off-hand reference by the former vice president to his investment in "Nest" to send the stock for the failed red light camera and speed camera firm Nestor soaring 14,900 percent.

"There are a lot of great companies out there, and our general counsel's always cautioning my partners and me not to be caught giving portfolio advice," Gore said on Yahoo Finance's Daily Ticker show. "But I'll pick one out of the blue, a product that you wouldn't think of as a great opportunity, and that's a thermostat, NEST, is a terrific company."

glatt · 01-13-2014, 03:33 PM

Google just bought the company for $3.2 billion. I wonder if my brother had any shares?

lumberjim · 01-13-2014, 06:34 PM

So your brother works for Google now?

glatt · 01-13-2014, 08:28 PM

Yeah. Well, when the deal goes through anyway.

I wonder what Google is going to do with my temperature data now.

Spexxvet · 01-14-2014, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

I wonder what Google is going to do with my temperature data now.

Watch you. Or track your heating/cooling pattern so that HVAC adds will pop up in your searches.

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BigV · 01-14-2014, 10:45 AM

Yah beat me to it. I thought of you and your brother and this thread this morning, but you scooped me. Congrats to your brother.
:-)

xoxoxoBruce · 01-16-2014, 10:56 PM

An editorial in The New Yorker, is not happy about this acquisition.

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But when you probe deeper, you realize they’re actually getting much more. Jokes aside (like needing a Google+ account to change the temperature in your house or getting ads for fire extinguishers while your house burns down), there’s something subtly different happening here. This isn’t just another corporate giant acquiring a well-loved startup and its users.

It’s not just an acquisition — it’s an annexation. The kind that involves planting a flag. Because now we’re talking physical territory, which is the case as the internet inexorably and increasingly reaches into the real world. Simply put: People invited Nest into their houses. Not Google.

monster · 10-11-2014, 08:19 PM

An Environmental warrior fried of mine just "liked" Nest on Facebook. She doesn't do shit like that lightly, must be good....

glatt · 10-11-2014, 08:47 PM

Cool. In hindsight, I'd say it's worth the high purchase cost. At least with our HVAC system.

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10-11-2014, 08:19 PM	#55
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	An Environmental warrior fried of mine just "liked" Nest on Facebook. She doesn't do shit like that lightly, must be good.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-13-2014, 03:33 PM	#49
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Google just bought the company for $3.2 billion. I wonder if my brother had any shares?

01-13-2014, 08:28 PM	#51
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Yeah. Well, when the deal goes through anyway. I wonder what Google is going to do with my temperature data now.

10-11-2014, 08:47 PM	#56
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Cool. In hindsight, I'd say it's worth the high purchase cost. At least with our HVAC system.

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