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>privacy-conscious appliance manufacturer.... like Nest Nest is now owned by Google. Nest also had installed microphones in their units without telling consum
by giarc 7y ago
>privacy-conscious appliance manufacturer.... like Nest
Nest is now owned by Google. Nest also had installed microphones in their units without telling consumers prior to being purchased by Google.
- dmix 7y agoYes... which I mentioned in the very next sentence. Way to take the Nest part completely out of context, which I was referencing only in regards to offering a clean/minimal designed home appliances. I'm convinced privacy-conscious smart products which keep things as local as possible combined with good simple design is applicable to so many niches. Including routers.
- vearwhershuh 7y agoMy fear is that the only way to get decent industrial design, like the nest, is to finance it with consumer spying.
- bluGill 7y agoMy thermostat from 1990 still works fine. It will have to continue to work fine for a while longer until I can trust more modern ones. If you connect to the internet you have no business controlling my house's heat. I'm not paying $$$ to someone to get my heat back on.
- dmix 7y agoWell that's the current standard model so that's understandable. But I think consumers, especially early adopters and even Apple execs, are becoming conscious of the need and demand for privacy. If I was a VC I'd be looking for someone to invest in which offers both modern digitized equipment without the total privacy/security sacrifice.
- giarc 7y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong but I feel like your original comment left out the "Maybe combined with good/minimalist design...".