There's soooo many things that I can comment on the rest of this post about but this in case it seem most people on this thread or forum keep whining and complaining about "consumer" grade off the shelf solution like Ring,etc where you just buy it and scroll to the bottom of the page and click "ACCEPT"... Don't like it... don't buy it or ACCEPT it... simple as that..
And to answer your question "The other thing with cloud based is they can change the conditions of the service at any time or jack up the prices," umm, no they can't.. because with true enterprise grade solutions you're going to have a written / formal contract that goes through legal, etc and a TOS, etc... and minimum 1yr+ of service (we have some Verkada clients on 3+ year contracts and these new OpenEye clients on 2+ year contracts).. so no, they just can't JACK UP THE PRICE at any time.
Gotta love the internet and the mis-information out there.. Does the banks jack up your rates on your auto loans / home loans also at any time or change conditions?
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I was beginning to wonder what planet you live on...
Thank goodness @fenderman called you out for having a hidden agenda. I love it when he does that.
You missed the entire point. I buy a non-cloud based camera and I never have to worry about some fee coming up or increasing a fee for use of that camera or it being hacked.
Dahua doesn't send me a bill 3 years later saying I owe them more money. I bought it and I am done. With a cloud-based camera, the annual fee is there until you decide to get rid of the piece of crap for a camera that doesn't lock you in to fees for the life of the camera.
With a cloud-based camera or doorbell, at the end of the year, they can jack up the price and you are stuck at that point - you either pay up or don't and then have a useless device and buy something else. That is considered jacking up the fee at anytime - maybe it is more of a notice that once your year is up the fee goes up, but you are just trying to pick a fight to hawk your services and missed the entire point. In fact, many TOS say they can change parts of the terms at any time - can't get more clearer than that LOL.
Look no further than recently when Ring doubling their price for the same service.
OR worse - they lure you in with "free" offerings like AI in the doorbell to alert you if someone doesn't push the button, and then years later, change it to be part of the subscription paid service. Don't tell me you are too naive to have never seen that happen? No different than TV stations taking their "free programming" and moving it over to their paid streaming services.
OR worse - you have a cloud based device and the company either decides it isn't worth it being in that market or goes out of business - now you have a device that doesn't work anymore.
Or even worse - what about the hacking of cloud-based systems like Verkada had a year ago...
Love this quote from a different article: Even more alarming than the attack, was that Verkada had no idea they had been breached until the video feed hit Twitter. Verkada learned about the hack through the media, without any knowledge of the duration of the breach or the extent of the damage. The hackers have since claimed they had uninterrupted full system access for two days.
WOW - where does the $1500 per camera plus annual license money go - not to security apparently... Oh wait it goes to your 'Bro Culture' where unethical activity is radically more commonplace than virtually any other technology company
Comparing a car loan that is typically 4 years and a home loan that is typically 30 years is not the same comparison. Does Ring or any cloud-based provider offer a 30 year, lock in your rate now. NO. And would anyone be stupid enough to do so? Probably LOL.
Tell me again how cloud-based is cheaper and safer?
Hmm who is actually spreading mis-information...someone gonna wish they kept their mouth shut cause now people researching Verkada gonna come across this thread and see how self-serving their employees are going out to forums and spreading mis-information and lies all to try to gain a sale....
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