Google sucks at IoT so, in the time-honored tradition of monopolists, it bought a successful company, Nest, bricked much of its existing gear, failed catastrophically to integrate it for YEARS, exposing users to hacks, shuffled it around and around the corporate structure...

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Under the deal, ADT customers' security cameras will be "upgraded" to Nest devices whose videos will be sent to Google for long-term storage and machine-learning analysis.

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None of this should be happening. For decades, America's competition law operated on the presumption of "structural separation" - the idea that companies should not be allowed to form vertical monopolies:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3180174

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These monopolies are inevitably not just inefficient, plagued by "the curse of bigness," but they also crowd out GOOD companies with superior products, by using the vertical integration to keep them from getting into the market.

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