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>I imagine there are a decent chunk of Ring customers who would have not purchased the device had it been sold by Amazon in the first place. I have a hard time
by notatoad 9y ago
>I imagine there are a decent chunk of Ring customers who would have not purchased the device had it been sold by Amazon in the first place.
I have a hard time feeling too much sympathy for these people. The inevitable conclusion for most of these heavily-vc-funded home automation startups is an acquisition by one of the tech giants. If you are boycotting the tech giants for whatever reason, you should therefore be boycotting any startup that might be an acquisition target.
also, if you're putting video cameras in your home that push footage to a server you don't control (or even one that you do) i'm not sure you can call yourself privacy conscious.
- gnicholas 9y ago> The inevitable conclusion for most of these heavily-vc-funded home automation startups is an acquisition by one of the tech giants. You're right that this was an obvious outcome, in retrospect. I wonder what percent of their customers saw this coming. My sense is that they're not just selling to early adopters now—my retired aunt has been telling me about Ring for quite some time. > If you are boycotting the tech giants for whatever reason, you should therefore be boycotting any startup that might be an acquisition target. Huh, so if I avoid FB then I shouldn't use anything that they might acquire? Seems kind of tough, since they go out and buy things like Oculus, which was a bit out of left field.
- notatoad 9y agoif you're going to feel betrayed when a startup gets acquired by FB then you should avoid all startups. if you can be understanding about a company you don't like acquiring one you do, then buy whatever. just don't be shocked when a startup follows the same route as literally every other startup.