On: Google to Acquire Nest

[wmf]

Realistically Nest is a luxury product and the rest is just rationalization. But luxury gadgets is a legitimate market.

[justincormack → wmf]

Yes, but Apple's market not Google's...

[jonlucc → justincormack]

I don't think this is strictly true. I believe rich and poor use Google search. Perhaps iOS and Android have different markets, but this acquisition will bring former iOS guys into the Google realm.

[smackfu → wmf]

An interesting question is whether Google will keep it a luxury product.

[CoryG89 → smackfu]

This is exactly what I was thinking. They will use their resources to make it cheaper, mass manufacture them, and start selling them to next to nothing just to get the data. More power to 'em.