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The chances you will be away from home, a burglar is at your door, and you're actually notified quickly enough and you're available to fly your drone around the
by jariel 6y ago
The chances you will be away from home, a burglar is at your door, and you're actually notified quickly enough and you're available to fly your drone around the house and catch a glimpse of a bad guy ... are almost 0, and it may not make a difference anyhow.
This is a 'novel' toy, the kind of cool factor that transcends use case. 'Aspirational Utility' it's called. Dude's can spend $300 on it 'because it's useful' they will tell themselves.
- lostgame 6y agotbh as much as I’d love to tell myself it isn’t - and I use my iOS (and now WatchOS) dev career to justify it - but the Apple Watch kind of fits neatly for me in this would-be category. It’s more cool and interesting than it is functional.
- ls612 6y agoFor the watch both the fitness and activity features and being able to get all my notifications on my wrist are great features. A few other things (like having my 2FA codes easily accessible and controlling music) are also nice
- sfotm 6y agoI'm right with you on the fitness bit, there. Having GPS for all of my runs is fantastic, and you don't have to carry around your whole phone. Music is also nice, especially if you have it on the local storage.
- Shared404 6y agoI would think it would be more for things like "Did I leave the stove on" then "Is someone breaking in". That being said, I will never buy this because Ring is untrustworthy.
- lm28469 6y agoI've seen a few people commenting about this stove issue. I can't believe anyone seriously thinks the answer to "some people forget to turn off their stove sometimes" is "indoor drone streaming data to mega corporations". There are auto switch off devices for both gas and electric stoves by the way.
- Shared404 6y agoI agree -- I was just stating a more viable use case. And like I said in my comment: Ring is untrustworthy. As such, there is no way I would ever purchase this from them. I would also not purchase it from a different large corp.
- acruns 6y agoWhile I agree completely with the concept that alarms are almost worthless, I believe its automated when a sensor/camera alerts it flies to that area. For the record, I would never allow this in my house. A dog is a much better deterrent than any alarm.
- jariel 6y ago'Alarms' are probably useful. A loud 'alarm sound' would definitely have an effect on an intruder, they often alert some authority if left on, and cameras start recording. I find them extremely common in the hyper-safe suburbs where every kid is in a safety bubble, probably the lowest crime areas going. They're sold for inflated prices. Probably way over used, but there's legit utility there. But what nerd can honestly not say they're not having to actively resist from buying a flying 'home monitor drone'. I mean, I'm 100% sure that I don't need one and I still want to buy it! It's actually a smart move by Amazon, it's important to imbue their otherwise 'Warehouse of Crap' brand with aspirational things. I foresee a million dudes 'checking to see if they locked the door' ... just because.
- nobody9999 6y ago>'Alarms' are probably useful. A loud 'alarm sound' would definitely have an effect on an intruder, they often alert some authority if left on, and cameras start recording. >I find them extremely common in the hyper-safe suburbs where every kid is in a safety bubble, probably the lowest crime areas going. They're sold for inflated prices. Alarms are definitely useful. Mostly because in many places, having an alarm system installed will lower your homeowner's insurance premium. As long as the ROI is less than how long you intend to live in that residence, it makes lots of sense. Beyond that? Not much value.