‘I just tore mine off of the wall’: Nest owners react to Google buyout

- Jan. 13th 2014 7:50 pm PT

Google makes all @nest devices free if you sign up for Google+ and interact once a month. Shutters the company a year later.
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David Chartier (@chartier) January 13, 2014

Investors may be pleased by today’s news of Google’s Nest acquisition, but some Nest owners are far less enthused.

Anyone want to buy an @nest that's been installed for barely a month? Probably not joking.
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David Chartier (@chartier) January 13, 2014

@9to5Google I just tore mine off of the wall. Thanks for nothing, Google.
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(@kenikh) January 14, 2014

@chrisharrington Is that a whoohoo! yes, or more of a confirmation? Cause I'm about to rip that thing off the wall. @nest
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Ben T (@OtherWhiteBen) January 13, 2014

@daytonlowell did you rip your nest out of the wall?
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Dan Syde (@dansyde) January 13, 2014

Sad day. Time to rip the @nest off the wall.
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PCR (@23rag1) January 13, 2014

@JetBoyParker @laurelfreyja I'll be taking my Nest off the wall and selling it. Interested in having Google track you more, in your home?
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Kelly (@guyinmj) January 14, 2014

The day @google forces me to sign on to @nest using a google+ account is the day it gets ripped off the wall. #Depressing
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Robert (@RobertDaneCA) January 13, 2014

I want to see a video where someone sees the news, then proceeds to tear their Nest out of their wall, breaking the wall in the process.
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Nick Pomes (@nmpomes) January 13, 2014

Google is going crazy with the acquisitions. They're gonna acquire our life for free pretty soon. #Nest
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Farhi (@farhink) January 14, 2014

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https://plus.google.com/114595302541653637967 Nikola Marunić

What are these people talking about!! If Google wants to spy on you they don’t need any better tool than your phone. It doesn’t invade your privacy only when you are home, it invades it everywhere!! So why would they go through all this trouble of buying a new company just to spy on you, or is your room temperature a matter of national security!!
https://plus.google.com/115598764348662148847 Danny Lewis

I just don’t understand people. I really don’t care who owns Nest as long as it still works and Google has always let paranoid people who think they are so god damn important opt-out of anything they don’t want to be apart of.

http://lionelgeek.wordpress.com/ LionelGeek

I’m right there with you man.

https://plus.google.com/111155414170589262856 Brian Clausen

This is not my own comment. I was going to paraphrase but its too good to shorten. Its from Ron Amadeo:

I love the manufactured outrage claiming that Nest’s schedule learning and single-point motion sensor is somehow this incredibly sacred treasure trove of location data. The “Google will know when I’m home!!!111” crowd must have forgotten about the GPS chip in their smartphone that knows not only when they are home, but where they are at all times, or the (often always-on) Wi-Fi location that can do the same thing, or cell tower triangulation, or the fact that any company could easily resolve when you are home anytime you go on the internet using your home IP address.

Nest’s location data would probably be the worst piece of location data in Google’s arsenal. In fact, improved location data from something like a smartphone would be one of the biggest immediate benefits to the Nest.

The good ship Privacy is resting at the bottom of the ocean, and these people are running around panicking about pinhole leaks. Any company that wanted to use your location for some imaginary evil plot, Google especially, already has much better ways to figure out where you are. Now hush.
https://plus.google.com/+DouglasBoehme Douglas Boehme

LOL @all the idiot nerd rage. GG losers.
https://plus.google.com/+MichaelPayton Michael Payton

Like Apple doesn’t track you…what a joke. I wonder where the fingerprints are going…oh that’s right on the phone. lol.
https://plus.google.com/+MichaelPayton Michael Payton

Since none of you folks want your nests anymore, I’ll take it. Or at least post a video of you ripping it off the wall so I can laugh at you for being so immature. LOL!
https://plus.google.com/108338632864079654617 Dan King

I’ve been planning to buy a Nest and a Protect this year, Google’s purchase of Nest means….I’m still going to buy a Nest and Protect this year
http://twitter.com/RohanDeelen Rohan Deelen (@RohanDeelen)

I was planning on buying a nest device no more.
https://plus.google.com/+MattWallabyClark Matt Aquila Clark

These reactions make approximately no sense.
https://www.facebook.com/zorlac.realm Chris Patrick

Yea all the tweets coming from anti-Google people. Anyone from pro-Google since this is 9to5Google?

http://9to5mac.com Seth Weintraub

I think we’re going for comedy in this one. The Googler reactions aren’t quite as amusing.

https://www.facebook.com/rizzn Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins

I thought this was a satire site. You guys aren’t normally going for comedy?

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