Chilly relations: Nest thermostats removed from Apple store NEW YORK-Nest thermostats are out of Apple retail stores. Check out this story on pressconnects.com: http://usat.ly/1MMvMqU NEW YORK - One of the questions I posed to Nest Labs founder Tony Fadell just after Google acquired Nest for $3.2 billion in January 2014 was how weird it would be for him to be working for Google after Apple? As an Apple executive, after all, Fadell was instrumental in creating the iPod.