How Nest’s Tiny Green Light Inspired Revolt

Consumers don’t always see tech product updates as improvements

Thomas Smith
Modus
Published in
14 min readDec 26, 2019

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InIn August 2019, Google made a change to a tiny green light on its Nest security cameras. The company was probably totally unprepared for the complete horror-show that followed.

The episode began innocently enough when Google decided to do some digital…

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