Canary claws back cloud features from its IoT camera, starts charging $10/month

Sure… but my security camera doesn’t need AWS it doesn’t need to be accessible to millions of people all across the globe. Google’s proven the AI features necessary to do the “heavy lifting” can and will fit on an small embedded system. The only thing needed is a small server for the end user to access (you know like the one on your router that hosts the web page you use to fiddle with the settings and a vpn to access the video streams (you know like the one baked into most routers). There’s no need for the video to be hosted/viewed externally except for greed.