Usually, the biggest companies are not the most dynamic.
From Tony Fadell
I started designing the greenest the most connected home before the iPhone and the iPad.
Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say 'screw this.' They hate the products.
Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother's voice.
In Tahoe, you want to be able check on the temperature of the house or turn it on before you get there. Because it's really cold in the winter.
Thermostats are made by very large companies with no incentive to innovate. Their customers are contractors or HVAC wholesalers, not consumers. So why spend to make them better? It's a good business.
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