[mykalberta]

I was looking at purchasing a NEST thermostat for our home durring Christmas as I saw them on sale for $200.

I did some reading.

Nest is currently under attack by Honeywell for patent infringement. They have some pattents but recently paid a patent troll for access to their patents to protect themselves from Honeywell.

The NEST brand is a very strong technology brand, Im a bit surprised Google would out right purchase them and not say 80% so that it doesnt get the negative press of owning them.

I am sure there is some clause for the creative team behind NEST to stay with Google for at least a few years.