Nest is dead, long live Google Home
This week, Google announced that it has finally completed moving "the best" of its Nest-branded smart home devices from the Nest app to the Google Home app. This means users of Google Nest hardware shouldn't have to bounce between two apps anymore and can finally delete the Nest app. (The "best" qualifier is doing some heavy lifting, and some features are still in Google's Public Preview beta program.)
The fact that one of the world's largest tech companies took over three years to move a handful of devices into a new app is, frankly, astonishing. Combined with the slow, painful death of Nest hardware, you'd be forgiven for thinking Googl …