The cost is reflective of their quality, I just want the consumer to appreciate the costs of operation of this wireless model vs a more traditional wired camera solution that incorporates an on premise hard drive.

You can also bypass the cloud subscription and get the Blue Iris software dor your PC and get subscription free security monitoring recirded to your PC's hard drive.

and you can save clips to your hard drive if needed

I do like the fact of not having to deal with a hard drive system, because you always can rely on your data being there with no worries of break down or theft.

If I would have known this, I would have bought a camera system that includes a hard drive- no subscription and would have paid for itself in 5 years compared to a nest aware subscription.

The cost of subscription is high, but it will still be years of use before it rivals price of a similar quality hard drive-based security system

It's easy enough to download something to my computer if I see something I want to save on my hard drive