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Google should buy Arduino.

What would they do with it?

A Really Dumb Undertaking If No Objective

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I'd be worried about Google if they based acquisitions on buzzword soup.

I'd be worried if my CEO doesn't understand the internet of things.

You responded to a question with a list of buzzwords. You responded to a gentle ribbing of that list of buzzwords with another buzzword.

That particular buzzword doesn't usually refer to hacker-built one-off projects, like the tweeting coffee pot mentioned in the article.

Somehow I don't think Arduino is looking to be acquired.

But if they were, I can think of a couple of companies that, unlike Google, might actually stand to benefit from such a move.

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