With Arlo, you can view on your app or desktop. but you are logging into your account at Arlo. The free service gives like 7 days of activity uploads iirc. That’s what I have.
With Yi there’s 3 options - cloud upload, but you need to sign up for a paid service beyond the trial. Local storage (on your flash). That’s what I use. I have friends who are using the feature to redirect to a local NFS server but I am not using that.
one more thing about the Arlo. I would like it a lot more if they didn’t force you to use the shitty netgear wireless it bundles with. I would rather it uses my primary wireless network which is much more reliable and more manageable.
Well you can use the Yi app to access the flash on your camera and play it back. Have not tried to connect directly (not sure even how) to access the stored files
I understood the quality of ARLO service, but choose Nest for better quality, seamless integration and service.
Quality comes with expensive product, but trusting google quality. The subscription is cheap at $10/month for first next cam, thereafter it is $5/month. Monthly, we pay $40 to google which is not an issue.
We have been paying more amount to ADT. Now, we cut short ADT to minimum and added google nest service. Ultimately, we pay same amount, but google cloud storage subscription. We consider this essential home service and security.
I guess you should be glad it only has 800,000 subscribers, since you’re pay $49 for content and charging $40 for it. It’s creating a whole $384M/yr in revenue and losing money.
“The one way in which YouTube does reportedly hope to buck the trend is through ads. As the report suggests that YouTube plans on increasing ad revenue in a number of ways including offering premium ad access to its standard YouTube option as well as to YouTube TV.”
The strategy is to lose money on the subscription and make money on ads.
yt tv is not creating content, and yt prime or hwatever failed at original content.
cable companies almost own the content creation (right? i might be wrong). So we are the service provider there.
It’s all about user time, for ads, sub-diversifying user hours for ads is still a good idea. What’s your favorite company FB doing
You said it’s subscription revenue not ad revenue, but the subscription revenue doesn’t even cover the cost. It’s structurally unprofitable without ad revenue, so it’s dependent on ad revenue.
FB isn’t paying others for content then charging less money for a subscription to it. Their content is free.