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I doubt that these body cameras are very different from dash board cams (except for a need for more battery power) technically. Dashboard cameras are ephemeral

by th0br0 10y ago

I doubt that these body cameras are very different from dash board cams (except for a need for more battery power) technically. Dashboard cameras are ephemeral in some parts of the world and cheap _and_ a consumer mass market. Even assuming that it's technically very different: there's ~1 million sworn police officers in the US according to Wikipedia. That quantifies as a mass market for me given the price segment.

philipov 10y ago
"By way of comparison, at the weekend launch of iPhone 6s last Sept 25, Apple announced sales of over 13 million units across 3 days. In total, Apple sold 75 million iPhones in the launch quarter, the most it has ever sold." If they sold a single batch of 1 million units to every police officer in the country, it would still not even be in the same league. 1 million total potential customers sold in small batches is not mass market. [0]: http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/07/16/editorial-sorry-android-bloggers-but-samsungs-galaxy-s7-didnt-outsell-apples-iphone-6s http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/07/16/editorial-sorry-an....