Another always on microphone from Amazon in your home. Welcome to 1984!
Disassembling the Amazon Dash
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#12Dash was not an April fools?
No, and it was pretty clear it wasn't at the time tbh.
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#13I'm disappointed that it isn't powered by the kinetic energy of the pressing: I heard some Philips Zigbee control devices work that way (but Wifi might be too power hungry for that).
And I was expecting them to use the ESP8266 for this: Does anybody know if (at scale) that would have been cheaper?
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cost of carrier access.
Spark Devices negotiated with Telefonica for $3/1mb/mo global data plans. Maybe the bigger question is... why can't there be cheaper data plans available.
Depending on which product is being bought with these $3/month could be Amazon's net profit on what gets bought with these things in a month.
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#15Why does amazon use a module,instead of certifying their own ? this hopes to be a large volume project , so the savings could be considerate.
The article is estimating the price of one of these things as being $5 - I imagine that at least for an initial trial Amazon have decided they can make a decent return on them at that cost without certifying their own components.
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#16Why does amazon use a module,instead of certifying their own ? this hopes to be a large volume project , so the savings could be considerate.
The article is estimating the price of one of these things as being $5 - I imagine that at least for an initial trial Amazon have decided they can make a decent return on them at that cost without certifying their own components.
Also a key factor may have been the time required to get their own stuff certified vs using off the shelf stuff.
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#17Is it just me that finds the entire concept of the Dash ridiculous?
I mean, what's the idea, having a button for every single product we buy? And we need to set it up first. How is that any better than recurring ordering or just opening the website and ordering it? Are we expected to have an entire wall of dashes at our place?
I guess we'll need to sort them alphabetically or by color, so we don't waste time searching for the button we need.
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#18Another always on microphone from Amazon in your home. Welcome to 1984!
The microphone is only active when you hold down the button - if it's always on (for whatever reason, accidentally or maliciously), the unit would run out of power in a few hours, it's powered by a single AAA cell.
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#19I'm disappointed that it isn't powered by the kinetic energy of the pressing: I heard some Philips Zigbee control devices work that way (but Wifi might be too power hungry for that). And I was expecting them to use the ESP8266 for this: Does anybody know if (at scale) that would have been cheaper?
I'm not sure if the 8266 could be powered kinetically - wifi is particularly power hungry.
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#20Another always on microphone from Amazon in your home. Welcome to 1984!
The microphone is only active when you hold down the button - if it's always on (for whatever reason, accidentally or maliciously), the unit would run out of power in a few hours, it's powered by a single AAA cell.
It doesn't have to be always on, it could be remotely controlled.