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It’s a safe bet that Nest CEO Tony Fadell is not too happy with Google staff engineer Brad Fitzpatrick right now. Fitzpatrick last week posted a video that showed Nest’s Nest Protect smoke alarms badly misbehaving in his home.
In fact, despite the fact that his house was not on fire, the alarms kept going off and he was unable to find a way to get them to shut up. Fitzpatrick says he posted the video for one reason: To warn people away from buying Nest Protect.
EMGN: Google has just announced the purchase of Nest Labs for $3.2 billion in cash. Nest strives to reinvent important household items and have been responsible for the inventions of products such as the Nest Learning Thermostat and the Protect Smoke Detector.
