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This looks like a gather what hasn't been completely destroyed after our failure to properly integrate Nest and try to throw it out of the door operation. It's clear at this point that acquisition didn't work and the companies were incompatible with each other on basically every level.

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> It's clear at this point that acquisition didn't work and the companies were incompatible with each other on basically every level.

I agree that the companies look largely incompatible, but it looks like it does work? An acquisition that keeps releasing products after the merge is pretty rare and is usually considered a success

A product like this is a sign of internal rot. It's not bad enough to be a clear swansong for whatever remains of Nest, but it's a bad omen for Google's (non-pixel phone) product development.

I have been in the trenches at a company that made a startup acquisition, then tried to take the startup's tech and integrate it with their own IP to make a new product. I got the hell out before I could be blamed for the imminent failure. It wasn't pretty.

Early on Nest were really trying to assert themselves within the wider organization, but whatever remains of them now in new products is name only.

I'm not saying Nest were all good (this is an understatement) but Google have always overrated how far you can go if you cheap out on hardware.

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