back to article Cuckoo! Google settles into Nest, starts folding dev platform

Google has expanded its corporate grip over smart home company Nest, announcing that it will fold the company's developer platform into its own. "We're working towards merging Weave and Nest Weave to enable all classes of devices to connect with each other in a secure and reliable way," Google said in a slew of Internet of …

  1. Adam 52 Silver badge

    I'm not sure that a centralised Google cloud store will be more secure. Differently insecure maybe.

    Why can't we have a good old-fashioned IoT standard where anyone can host the server part, from Fred-in-his-bedroom to Google. Rhetorical question, of course, that way suppliers would have to complete on merit and Google would lose a source to data mine.

  2. David 164

    There a lot to discussed on the privacy side and philosophy side of things, but from a business standpoint this is a long overdue move from Google. It would make sense that they will eventually transfer wifi hub and Home and Chrome device teams over to Nest an unify their smart home technologies into a single, modular platform.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    "Brillo" is the trade name of a scouring pad in the UK. In Israel a similar use product is called "Durex". Waiting for Google to use that one too.

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