And not unlike Facebook/Oculus, Google/Nest makes perfect sense from the Nest side and very little from the Google side. In both cases there are potentially la

And not unlike Facebook/Oculus, Google/Nest makes perfect sense from the Nest side and very little from the Google side. In both cases there are potentially large payoffs in the long term. But they're extremely high price tags for decade-plus plays in which the acquired company has little to no particular proprietary technological edge.