The Verge spørger i en artikel, hvorfor Googles opkøb af Nest får så mange kommentatorer og netbrugere til at ytre bekymringer:
Google’s bombshell $3.2B acquisition of connected-home company Nest Labs makes simple sense on paper: Nest CEO Tony Fadell says he’ll gain the ability to scale his business without worrying about cash or infrastructure, while Google gets a company at the leading edge of the difficult smart-home market and a team skilled in building well-designed products that combine hardware, software, and services. It’s a win-win, and Nest’s investors sound ecstatic. “It’s a fantastic return,” Lightspeed Venture Partners’ Peter Nieh told The Wall Street Journal. But outside of the players directly involved in the deal, there was a second, more visceral reaction: disappointment.”
Kort sagt: Google lever af at vide alt om dig. Er det så ikke naivt at tro, at Google ikke vil bruge de data, som kan indsamles fra Nest-termostaten, røgalarmen og kommende Nest-produkter, til at få endnu flere info om dig? Bliver Nest den eneste Google-ejede virksomhed, der ikke indsamler informationer om dig? Det tror jeg ikke.
