Looks like the Smart Home may be getting closer.
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Report: Nest team to be Google's new hardware team
A new report from TechCrunch is stating that Google will keep the Nest group intact inside, however the devices they're working on might not be thermostats and smoke detectors. Apparently, Google wishes for the Nest team to make devices that make more sense for Google.
Nest's team is full of former Apple engineers. This move does make sense. Nest does/did make gorgeous hardware. Motorola's Project Ara and most of Moto's patents are now under the wing of Google. Google does need a hardware team to continue work on Project Ara.
Additionally, Google does have access to Samsung's patents thanks to a new agreement. The combination of Samsung patents and Motorola patents could spell exciting new devices from Google's new hardware team.
Nest Team Will Become Google’s Core Hardware Group | TechCrunch
Google today sold Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. While many speculated that Google would release phones after it bought Motorola in 2011, it didn’t..
But what is to keep the Nest devices (and any future devices developed by the group) from becoming commodities, like smartphones have been?
+John E. Bredehoft That won't matter, it will all be about the services and sensors. What Google needs is a manufacturing arm to develop the hardware to run their "Star Trek" computer in the home. If other OEM's want to develop competing hardware that runs their system, I would assume Google would be fine with that as well.
+Vance McAlister Spot on. Establish the market and building blocks, and then let others play in the playground (including the "commodity" sellers). Sort of like the Android phone universe, only Google is getting in on the ground floor.
+Dave Hill Right, I see what they will do with Nest as the "Nexus" versions, or even the Pixel, a reference and design standard.
The use of sensors idea to create neural networks is not a novelty either.
Its all to do is the consumer wants the irregular after hours temp of their house sent to a server when they get home.
I used sensors before in a wide varieties of applications, and any sensors result can be connected to a "live" application to produce real time data from ongoing events.
My GPS on my phone keeps being turned on" misteriously" and I keep turning it off when I am not using it. Google is dying hungry for more data to justify new business acquisitions and other financial maneuvering.
The TV is the big data bug for the couch potatoes but Google's innovative and ingenious ideas will get them a piece of the pie. We have a lot of small electronic devices controlled wirelessly through WiFi , Bluetooth an other protocols to keep up with the nice habits the more fortunate ones can afford…I wonder sometimes if people are paying attention to how Google and others will collect all that data from your network..it's happening already without a lot of folks knowing.
I do now life insurance because of an accident circumstance…I have seen more than once ads in TV's about 5 minute after I got to a restaurant about life insurance…
Is it all ways coincidence?
I do.t think so…I think is called targeted advertising…
Privacy has become just an almost tangible peace on mind.
Everyone is targeting the consumer more often and we act like sheep allowing this as long as we can keep eating and green grass. The thing some people forget, is how much power we ( the consumer) have if we just created a consumer association that limited the rights of data handling from rich companies like Google, Microsoft, and Apple, because we are actually allowing them to get rich by allowing them to collect our data freely.
They do charge us for almost everything : ), if they don't that is because they are getting something back in some other way.
+John Vieira I see lots of insurance commercials, too. I think they just advertise a lot.
That said, I've never understood the aversion to targeted advertising (except in some fringe knock-on effects, where other people wonder why you're getting ads for product/service X). If it's something I actually need, why wouldn't I want those adverts, vs solicitations for stuff I don't need or want?