Every time a large company acquires a smaller one, it is often said that everything it will continue to work as before, but nothing is further from the truth. The first thing that usually happens after an acquisition is that the application or product of the smaller company disappears from the market and becomes part of the buying company. The head of the small business is then removed or re-positioned in another position within the larger business. Of this we can see many examples in recent years and Tony Fadell is another that joins the list.
Tony Fadell left the Cupertino-based company to start his own company and launch smart thermostats called Nest. For many years, these types of devices have been a reference in the market, so much so that Google became interested in the company and bought it. But since then the launches of new devices have only been delayed and Alphabet seems to be unwilling for the story to continue like this, so it has dispensed with the figure of its founder, Tony Fadell, and instead has put as head of the company to Marwan Fawaz, former vice president of Motorola until he sold to Lenovo's Chinese.
All seems to indicate that This movement is aimed at launching as soon as possible the new range of thermostats and devices in which the company has been working in recent years so as not to be left behind now that IoT is increasingly popular among all users, although for now, the prices of this type of device are still not within the reach of many users. 50 euros with an adapter that allows us to turn on the lights remotely from our iPhone, it seems to me a real stupidity today. If we want to install a device of this type in each lamp in the house we will have to spend a whole salary to be able to do it.
