Nest CEO Sets the Record Straight: It 'Wasn't a Real Recall'

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Nest CEO Sets the Record Straight: It 'Wasn't a Real Recall'
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RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, Calif. — Product recalls are embarrassing and can be potentially damaging for hardware manufacturers. Perhaps that's why Nest (http://mashable.com/category/nest/?utm_campaign=Mash-BD-Synd-Samsung-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-BD-Synd-Samsung-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) founder and CEO Tony Fadell sought to set the record straight on the recent recall (http://mashable.com/2014/05/21/nest-recalls-*****-detectors/?utm_campaign=Mash-BD-Synd-Samsung-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-BD-Synd-Samsung-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) of some 440,000 Nest Protect ***** detectors

But Fadell said it "was **t a recall" during an interview with Walt Mossberg at Re/code's Code Conference on Wednesday. He **ted that Nest is constantly testing the product and discovered a situation in which an alarm could be delayed. The a**maly was related to a core Nest feature: the ability to wave at the detector and silence it while, say, cooking bacon. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/29/tony-fadell-nest-recall-comments/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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