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I'm glad they accepted that people were already hacking [1] their cheap Dash buttons and decided to roll with it. It's 4 times more expensive than their hackab
by AceJohnny2 10y ago
I'm glad they accepted that people were already hacking [1] their cheap Dash buttons and decided to roll with it.
It's 4 times more expensive than their hackable Dash buttons ($20 vs $5), but apparently more powerful (and secure?) from the get-go.
[1] For example, see all the entries: https://hackaday.com/tag/amazon-dash/ https://hackaday.com/tag/amazon-dash/
- CharlesW 10y ago> It's 4 times more expensive than their hackable Dash buttons ($20 vs $5)… That's interesting. A new product like this (no matter how seemingly small) takes some work, so to me this suggests that people hacking the "subsidized" buttons were a bigger use case then they'd planned for.
- matt4077 10y agoIt's a button. Let's not use the same word, i. e. 'powerful', reserved for THE button. I also think it's quite ugly. I could imagine some repurposed giant old fire alarm for, say, code deploys. But not something that's reminicent of made in china ±10 years ago.
- wastedhours 10y agoWould also assume (even if not from a BoM perspective) that the standard Dash buttons are cheaper as they're subsidised by the sale of the products?