Amazon acquires Eero

[ryao]

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/11/18220960/amazon-eero-acquisition-announced

 

I recognized the potential for mesh WiFi ~2 years before Eero was public. At the time, I reasoned that the thing would cut the efficiency of wireless spectrum usage by ~50%, forcing neighbors in high density areas to buy it and create a situation where things everything would be ~2 worse on average by the time everyone had one. I deemed this to be unethical, so I dropped the idea. Had I known that someone would do it and then the company could be sold to Amazon for an absurd amount of money, I would have built the prototype and taken it to a venture capital firm.

 

On the bright side, I now know how the world works. If you come up with an idea that makes people’s lives better in a way that is simultaneously easier to do yet less effective than the right way of doing things, you can get paid by a venture capital firm to build a company around it that you can then sell ~10 years later for an absurd amount of money to a company such as Amazon.

[Fnige]

Sounds like a story I'll tell to my "kids" one day

[williamcll]

now your amazon echo can double as a router too!

[W-L]

@ryao Please don't forget to include a quote related to the discussion at hand as per the Tech News Posting requirements. As of such the thread has been moved to general discussion until updated. 

 

 

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23 hours ago, ryao said:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/11/18220960/amazon-eero-acquisition-announced

 

I recognized the potential for mesh WiFi ~2 years before Eero was public. At the time, I reasoned that the thing would cut the efficiency of wireless spectrum usage by ~50%, forcing neighbors in high density areas to buy it and create a situation where things everything would be ~2 worse on average by the time everyone had one. I deemed this to be unethical, so I dropped the idea. Had I known that someone would do it and then the company could be sold to Amazon for an absurd amount of money, I would have built the prototype and taken it to a venture capital firm.

 

On the bright side, I now know how the world works. If you come up with an idea that makes people’s lives better in a way that is simultaneously easier to do yet less effective than the right way of doing things, you can get paid by a venture capital firm to build a company around it that you can then sell ~10 years later for an absurd amount of money to a company such as Amazon.

around 8 years ago I randomly had the idea to put Infrared lights behind cinema screens to stop piracy, I thought it was a pretty cool idea well at least I did till I searched it and found out that some Chinese cinemas had started to experiment with the idea around 6 months prior

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1 hour ago, VegetableStu said:

i recently read that IR isn't good for the eyes ,_, hopefully implementations elsewhere account for this kind of damage

Don’t look at any IR then 0-0

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6 hours ago, VegetableStu said:

i recently read that IR isn't good for the eyes ,_, hopefully implementations elsewhere account for this kind of damage

really, I mean our eyes have IR filters I think they would be talking about powerful IR sources like the kind you would get from a laser not the low light you would get from an IR LED