Google retires two smart home products and co-launches two replacements
Nest Protect is gone, but a similar product from First Alert will take its place. There's also a new smart lock from Yale.
- Google is officially retiring the 2013 Nest Protect smart smoke and CO2 alarm.
- A similar product from First Alert is launching in its place, with full support in the Google Home app and interoperability with the Nest Protect.
- Google is also co-launching a new smart lock from Yale to replace the Nest x Yale Lock from 2018.
Way back in October 2013, a young company called Nest Labs launched the Nest Protect, one of the first smart smoke/CO2 alarms to enter the burgeoning smart home market. Only a few months later, Google had swept in and bought Nest for $3.2 billion. Unbelievably, since then, not much has changed: Google still makes the Nest Protect () and has only moderately increased its price over the past 12 years.
Today, however, the company is finally sending the Nest Protect off to pasture. Starting now, production of the Nest Protect will cease, and Google will sell through all remaining stock.
