Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Google and Nest: Two Companies in the Business of Understanding You - NYTimes.com

Another interesting twist to Nest's new home
"Rather than thermostats, Nest’s key technologies were described by Mr. Fadell in an interview last November as “communications, algorithms, sensors and user experience, running over a network to the cloud.”
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By the way, Nest did all of it on Amazon Web Services. It will be interesting to see how quickly Google can put all this on Compute Engine, its public cloud. Nest, along with Snapchat, which already runs on Google, would be among its marquee customers."
Google and Nest: Two Companies in the Business of Understanding You - NYTimes.com

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