“Perhaps you’ve heard that Google bought Nest this week for $3.2 billion,” Tony Bradley writes for Forbes. “Since news of the purchase was made public, though, some have questioned why Apple didn’t buy it first, and many are concerned about the implications of Google owning Nest.”
“Consider… the backlash that has occurred from many users over the news that Google bought Nest,” Bradley writes. “Philip Michaels wrote on TechHive about his concerns over the privacy implications of Google having access to the data collected by Nest devices. He summed up with, ‘After all, it ultimately comes down to trust. I only like inviting guests into my home that I can trust. And Google hasn’t earned that trust, no matter what its vision for the automated home may be.'”
“I’ve heard great things about the Nest thermostat and I’ve had my eye on getting one for my house for some time. Now that Google owns Nest, I am less interested because I don’t trust Google,” Bradley writes. “The reason it’s good that Apple didn’t buy Nest is because doing so would alienate the segment of the market that doesn’t trust Apple. The reason Google shouldn’t have bought Nest is that doing so has alienated the segment of the population that doesn’t trust Google.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Among other things, Google squandered their good will by knocking off iPhone and by vacuuming up personal data in “Street View” drive-bys. These two acts alone, showed Google’s “Do No Evil” motto to be “bullshit,” as Steve Jobs once so aptly described it.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “David E.” for the heads up.]
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