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I actually don't understand their business model. $20 per month will in no way cover the cost to send security guards your way, or maybe I'm misunderstanding so
by folli 5y ago
I actually don't understand their business model.
$20 per month will in no way cover the cost to send security guards your way, or maybe I'm misunderstanding something here.
- gnicholas 5y agoIt sounds like the current $20 offering is to have a remote employee monitoring you when you walk home alone, or the like. The contemplated new service, Protect, is not currently available to the public, and there's nothing indicating it would be $20/mo. My guess is there will be tiers based on anticipated usage, like AAA. Want X number of monthly reports? That costs $Y. If you want 2X the reports and expedited response time, it costs $2Y.
- cutemonster 5y agoPeople paying for getting really intrusively surveiled?
- walleeee 5y agoA friend startup-pitched exactly this idea (remote monitoring by request, e.g. late-night walks home) to me 6 years ago and found me less enthusiastic than he had perhaps hoped, it's strange to think about how many people might converge on similar ideas at the roughly same time Not particularly surprised to see it realized in this way
- qualudeheart 5y agoI have a few surveillance ideas more interesting than that but think they are immoral. It’s sad that someone else will implement them anyway.
- olyjohn 5y agoThe same poor employee will be sitting there making shit pay, monitoring 30 people simultaneously. Then they will get bored and fall asleep and miss when something really happens.
- trhway 5y ago>$20 per month will in no way cover the cost to send security guards your way it will more than cover a drone. Especially AI based one instead of being remotely controlled. You can imagine that they can park a lot of drones around the city so the reaction time will be in seconds. While real people sometimes [think that they] have to use deadly force to protect themselves, a drone has no-self-preservation concerns (i hope it will be that way at least for some near future :) and thus can just blanketly use a lot of non-deadly force - acoustic, electric shock, 96GHz beamed power, etc. You're going for a walk late at night - just a click in the app would get you a drone or a robot dog to accompany you for a walk. The drone or the dog is already imprinted with your voice from the app for the duration of the walk, so you can command it at any moment.
- gtirloni 5y agoI'd rather move to a safer place.
- trhway 5y agoyou underestimate the power of marketing and societal mass self-delusion :) Just look around - there is no children and Ring cameras everywhere. 30 years ago the children were playing outside unsupervised.
- rapjr9 5y agoI remember getting trapped by bullies inside a cone made of concrete at an industrial site along the railroad tracks 50 years ago. They were threatening to kill me and given the remoteness of the site and the fact that these kids often killed animals it was plausible. I climbed up, hung from the edge, and let myself fall, hurt my ankle, and then ran. Is that what you want for your kids?
- codyb 5y agoI don’t get it, is that anecdotal experience supposed to provide guidance for all children? I’ve been jumped several times in my life. And yes, I’d much prefer my child walks outside alone just like I still enjoy walking outside unsurveiled. The world sucks, I’ve yet to find the place were continuous surveillance makes that better. YMMV, people have different views, I was never harmed beyond a two week long headache in any of my incidents, otherwise I just lost personal belongings like phones and wallets.