The Nest Team Will Reportedly Lead Google's Hardware Division

That $3.2 billion acquisition apparently landed Google 100 former Apple engineers and designers.

It's still early, but it's beginning to look like Google's $3.2 billion thermostat pickup could be the smartest investment of the year. TechCrunch has learned that the Nest team is going to become Google's core hardware group; Nest's consortium of engineers consists of 100 former Apple employees, including Tony Fadell, the father of the iPod, who knows a thing or two about designing elegant products with mass market appeal.

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