Tony Fadell Leaves Google

Tony Fadell, known as the father of the iPod and was the creator of the Nest Learning Thermostat, has decided to leave Google (or Alphabet). He announced this yesterday on the official Nest blog. Fadell noted that now was the right time to leave the company. Fadell intends to become an advisor to Google and Larry Page.

"While there is never a perfect time to transition, we’ve grown Nest to much more than a thermostat company. We’ve created a hardware + software + services ecosystem, which is still in the early growth stage and will continue to evolve to move further into the mainstream over the coming years. The future of Nest is equally as bright given the strong and experienced leadership team in place, as well as the two-year product roadmap we’ve developed together to ensure the right future direction."

- Tony Fadell 

Nest Stops Selling Protect!

Nest has stopped selling their smoke and carbon monoxide alarm due to tests showing that emergency alerts could unintentionally be silenced because of it's flagship feature, "Nest Wave." Nest CEO, Tony Fadell, wrote a letter on the issue.

To the Nest community: 

Since introducing the Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide alarm, we've heard touching stories from many of you about how we've helped keep you and your families safe. I consider your safety a huge part of my job and it’s something I think about and take pride in every day. At Nest, we conduct regular, rigorous tests to ensure that our products are the highest quality. During recent laboratory testing of the Nest Protect smoke alarm, we observed a unique combination of circumstances that caused us to question whether the Nest Wave (a feature that enables you to turn off your alarm with a wave of the hand) could be unintentionally activated. This could delay an alarm going off if there was a real fire. We identified this problem ourselves and are not aware of any customers who have experienced this, but the fact that it could even potentially happen is extremely important to me and I want to address it immediately.We feel that the best and safest thing to do is to immediately disable the Nest Wave feature to resolve the issue and remove any safety concerns. While we fix Nest Wave, we have also halted sales of all new Nest Protect alarms to ensure no one buys an alarm that needs an immediate update.

- Tony Fadell

Nest CEO

Nests should be back on store selves in 2-3 months.