With what they've been buying and the access to new talent, I can't help thinking Terminator

>expensive, elegant and has a "we care about the user" feel to it

Yeah, my daughter's house has one. They've been evangelizing.

>Gorg

You register that domain yet?

I've run across other articles summarizing the Twitter reaction to the Google purchase of Nest and they can be summarized by "I'm going to rip it off the wall," "spies," and "mine will be on eBay next week."

Don't know if its just a few malcontents or if there is a real backlash. It will probably blow over unless we see a sudden glut of used Nest units on eBay.  Still most of the public think only warm fuzzy thoughts about Google so Goog just has to ride it out.

>most of the public

I'm seeing a shift in that attitude. There is a glimmer of distrust.

"There is a glimmer of distrust."

It is about Fing time.

G is DANGEROUS - in my very humble opinion!

Currently #8 on unfiltered Reddit, which means crapload of eyeballs and upvotes:

Google's deal for Nest turns off fans of 'smart' thermostat

http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2022669758_googlenestxml.html

When I saw they purchased the robotics company and now Nest, I have to wonder:  what business is Google in? 

When they started out, Google made it very clear they were about "search" and then "searching all the data in the world"...

are they now going to collect that data themselves?

Harvesting data has a whole new meaning

http://i.imgur.com/4E18drN.png

I've been thinking about this and I'm pretty excited. I was thinking the NEST was too expensive for a thermostat, but now that the ad-supported version will be free, I think I might get a few

;-)