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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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But the technology that I needed to make it happen—reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processors—didn’t exist yet. How did these ugly, piece-of-crap thermostats cost almost as much as Apple’s most cutting-edge technology? But no matter where we went, we could not escape one thing: the goddamn thermostat.

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