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True. And Google says basic digital ones are cheap, I just bought a six pack from Amazon for $9.99. That said it does have an alerting capability…but even the
by Scubabear68 3y ago
True. And Google says basic digital ones are cheap, I just bought a six pack from Amazon for $9.99.
That said it does have an alerting capability…but even then Amazon shows products for $15 that have wireless alerting.
So yeah, $72 per unit indeed looks to be a waste of money.
- _Microft 3y agoEven if they weren’t creating their own devices, they also need to pay the developer(s) that are going to write the backend and fleet management software.
- mindslight 3y ago$400k in the context of custom development, testing, and administration? That's cheap. And frankly this approach is much more appropriate than the alternatives of defense contractor pork, defective-by-design consumer "cloud", or having people manually do rounds and record numbers. Also if you want to claim some high ground about not "wasting money", I don't know why you'd use an example of buying Chineseum from overpriced Amazon rather than getting it drop shipped.
- Scubabear68 3y agoI got the sense from the article the software was already done, the $400k seemed to be just for the devices. I could be wrong, the article was difficult to follow in places.