Matches with my experiences. The Logi cameras are also prone to failure after a year.. they just stop connecting to the network and red-light-flash-of-death.
AI will be very good once we get to agentic AI. Apple's version of AI is like putting lipstick on a pig and charging for it.
iCloud+ pricing is going up very soon. It won't be much cheaper for much longer.
This is actually reasonable. What is the point of a security camera if you don't store all the video data it captures? Yes, you could store it locally at home, but that requires the user to buy and set up a computer with very large storage and let it run 24x7. The computer has to be powerfull enough to run ther AI locally. Not only that, but you need to set up remote access to that computer on a VPN so you can check the video footage while not at home. Very few people could do that. For then, "cloud" is the only option that could technically work.
Using Apple Intelligence camera features in the Home app will require an iCloud+ plan starting at 2TB, according to Apple.
Some of us been through other bubbles and guess what only thing that changed was amount of money being tossed around, the tech didn't go away, just like AI isn't going away.
I am still amazed at the night vison of the G5, so far Aqara is shaping up to be the best cameras I have used.
Yeah, I feel like we're approaching a much-needed resetting of expectations for AI.
I spent $400 for a 4GB drive in 1995, the price on drives has gone down quite a bit, and they went up with some Tsunamis and then back down. (I am not advocating that we need to be raped by Western Digital) But I mean people don't respect this but 10TB is quite a bit. It's just a bummer that you work on three 4K videos that are 2-3 minutes long and that's 500GB to 1TB gone like poof, and then you kinda have to back it up for almost a year...
That's crap, Netflix and Disney + some Hulu, plus HBO etc, and even Dropbox (not so much) but MS Office, those fools have raised their prices like 10 times each in the last 5-8 years, Apple has raised their prices what? I am not saying had high prices, I am saying RAISED their prices? Hardware? This is the first time I have ever or can remember Apple doing that, 2nd) AppleOne? what twice? maybe once! That is NOT their MO... They don't really RAISE prices, they may INTRODUCE, but they aren't really "JACKERS!"
While this is true, iCloud also gives you fewer features.
This is why you need the Aqara G5 Pro cameras. They are not expensive, have amazing color night vision, and can run on HomeKit while simultaneously using RTSP to feed a NVR or BlueIris-on-Windows setup for 24/7 recording.
