This is clearly a shot at Google/Nest, who now produce similar devices under the Nest banner.
I understand Ring are a market leader in this field, but already being in the Nest ecosystem I’d be more likely to buy the Nest product.
Does anyone have one of these video doorbells? I feel like they might be more common in the US than here.
I’ve never actually seen one (apart from on the shelf at Best Buy) but I assumed you could make them somewhat incognito.
I’d rather have something ring my phone compared to the obnoxious doorbell I have in my flat right now. I realise I could just buy and install a less obnoxious doorbell, but if I have to go to all that effort I’d like to replace it with tech 
- ideally something with an API.
I’ve got Netgear Arlo. Does an alright job. Handy becuase the cameras are not wired, reasonably sensitive of movement and fairly discreet.
I thought Amazon had launched their own camera/wireless key product. Maybe this is just buying out a competitor.
The Ring adverts are truly annoying.
I have Arlo integrated to Alexa via IFTTT.
Aren’t the windows open?!
The ring doorbells came from a Kickstarter called doorbot and the hardware hasn’t changed internally much since. Poor WiFi antenna, and underpowered so it takes them several seconds to detect motion… uploaded to a server then supposed to notify your mobile but often takes 30-60 seconds to do so. Basically what you have is a doorbell that tells you that callers just gave up and left 
I was waiting for nest to produce theirs so I could rip the ring doorbell out… but if Amazon can sort out the server side it might even become useful. Can’t fix the rubbish motion detect without new hardware though.
I backed ‘Ding’ on Kickstarter which is similar, though no camera. I don’t want to pretend I’m in, when I’m not. Having a door bell alert my phone is all I need!
Lets you see who you’re not answering the door to. I like that. 
