I have a Home, and have bought three for family members. I find the random insertion of an irrelevant ad to be shocking because it is dumb and annoying. This is very early days, and I'm really surprised that Google, having been almost overly protective of monetization with Glass, and generally a company I've found making advertising better and more relevant, could misstep so badly as to shove irrelevant ads down the throats of paying customers.

As short sighted and incompetent as this ad is from a product management perspective, the glib, dishonest, and irrelevant p/r response is a whole 'nother realm of stupid. That hack should be fired immediately.

As @swiftonsecurity noted on twitter: "This is really just sad. There's a team of amazing engineers somewhere, watching their own leadership destroy collective dreams right now."