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Comment by ryankupyn | Hacker News Reader

This is neat but sort of strange - I love the idea of a hardware package that makes fiddling with deep learning easy, but I wonder why Amazon went through the trouble of producing such a relatively niche product?

If I had to guess, this is going to be a great "user education" tool for AWS, designed to get new developers on the platform as early in the learning process as possible.

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Do you really think its niche? Sure its not going to be a GoPro consumer product but the market for "smart video cameras" or whatever you want to call video+insight is going to be pretty darn big. This seems like this easiest foray into combining a video camera with learning with limited bandwidth issues. My only concern is whether or not Google will come out with something similar in the near term.

Surely Google will come with one. Or something under Android umbrella. Only concern is, Google's hardware is at best meh level, while Amazon had better reputation in that front.

Considering the engineering and manufacturing investment in this product, it's hard to see where they are expecting their ROI. It certainly won't be from the product sales themselves, and since the target market seems to be individual as opposed to corporate developers, I wonder if increased use of AWS is going to generate enough revenue to offset the costs.

Because they open everything they develop and in this case they want to see innovations happen around their new home cameras! Which they use already with deliveries.

Don’t forget the weird fashion selfie cam.

A gadget to hook you into using their ML cloud?

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