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All the hate for CES just tells me that some people have no idea what trade shows are about.  I assume they are the same people that wonder why concept cars revealed at auto shows can't be purchased at the local dealership.  

The largest benefit of shows like CES is networking, not trying to move product.  

StrangeDays said:

sflocal said:

I've had this technology for decades.  It's called a "puddle on the floor".  And it's eco-friendly, requiring no electrical power.

Amazing that companies come out with such gimmicks.  It's a solution in search of a problem.

Nope. You just forget that you aren't everyone. People in entirely different parts of the country with entirely different housing stock and construction have different use cases than you. What a concept, huh?

My house is over a century and a half old, and you can imagine some of the unique scenarios such a structure has. Friends with a similar historic home came home one day to an upstairs waster leak that trashed the bathroom and downstairs foyer. Original plaster is not easy or cheap to repair, often it is simply lost forever.

But yeah, just a "gimmick" because you personally don't need. Cool story bro.

On top of that a lot of homes here in the south have their pipes run through the concrete slab.  Not everyone has a basement/crawlspace (to which I'm actually glad) so you don't always know when there is a leak.  A previous house of ours had a pinhole leak on the hot water side in the slab.  We only noticed it when I realized "hey, this part of the floor in the closet is warmer than the rest of the closet".  Plumbers said it had calcified around the pinhole so it had been leaking for some time.  

Just had a faucet freeze and didn't realize it until I tried to use the hose and my wall became soaked and water seeped into the breakfast area.  There is a market for this. 

HOWEVER, their rollout plan is ludicrous.  No quicker way to fail a product than to limit who can buy it, who can sell it, and who can install it.  "Hey, let's create something and then tell people they can't have it for absolutely NO reason.".  Put it online and ship it worldwide.  I'd buy one and I'd install it myself in no time flat, considering I just replaced my water heater and an outdoor faucet in the last week.  This would be a piece of cake.

jume said:

mark fearing said:

I suppose the best outcome for them is to get bought by a larger tech company. I don't see how they grow a camera business at this point. Aren't they more or less servicing a niche? And that's fine, especially if they hadn't gone public. Going public isn't always the best avenue if you actually care about and want to grow a company. But if they were beholden to the VC types, then it's not a decision made for the good of the company or its customers. It's a bottomline decision. They want returns on their investments.

That's exactly whats wrong with this world. Grow grow and grow more! Whats wrong by being small, niche and the best in what you do? Even if it's just a fucking sport camera and the market size is just 300m. We already outgrown ourselves just about everywhere, I think it's time we start shrinking.

The only problem I see with being small and the best at what you do is that there will be many copycats that may be able to get close to your quality but multiples less in market price.  

$3600 is a pretty small, yet specific number.  I wonder if that is their incurred cost for added security in the days following the Dec 2 trespass.  Has to be some reason to come up with that number