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Apple's smart home camera reportedly won't record video

35 points · 72 comments · mikelgan

  1. SoftTalker · · focus · HN ↗
    > switch lights off when a room becomes empty

    How is this getting investor money, and how are consumers seeing this as something worth paying for?

    It's just not hard to flip the light switch when you leave the room, and you don't need an all-seeing eye uploading everything that happens in your house to a massive corporation.

    I can't believe this is a feature that gets the hype that it does. It's almost as cliche as the example of making a dinner reservation.

    1. wat10000 · · focus · HN ↗
      What investor money? This is purportedly an internal project by a large tech company. And what hype? This is speculative article based on second-hand leaked information.
      1. SoftTalker · · focus · HN ↗
        Well, fair point. The investors are the people buying Apple stock I guess. But this is what they're chosing to promote as a benefit for the trillions being spent on GPUs, servers, data centers, power, water, and all the rest of it? Turning off the lights when you leave the room?
        1. wat10000 · · focus · HN ↗
          Apple isn’t real big in the data center space either. The described feature doesn’t take a ton of horsepower, I’d bet it’s done locally.
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