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Re:Minecraft creator says he’s canceled talks for Oculus Rif... by ThomPete on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @04:31PM (#7476396)
Exactly, not unlike the reason why Nest found it ok to get bought by Google.
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Re:Minecraft creator says he’s canceled talks for Oculus Rif... by roc on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @05:37PM (#7476842)
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.

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Re:Minecraft creator says he’s canceled talks for Oculus Rif... by ThomPete on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @07:33PM (#7477468)
Nest makes perfect sense for Google. It's all about automation.
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