You organized some good questions and references. We certainly don’t know all the details or information. So far this is all they’ve really said about the cost issue:
I find it interesting that Wyze doesn’t say that it IS expensive, but that it COULD BE expensive depending on how people end up using it. For some reason they have a limit on the number of streams they can have at a time too.
I definitely share some similar questions as to how it is different from streaming through the app, but it sounds like they learned from the Person Detection issue…instead of starting by giving it to everyone free and then finding out they can’t financially support that, here they are rolling it out more conservatively and running some numbers on how it’s used first and what they can actually handle.
Perhaps we can ask them for more details in the next AMA and see if they’ll provide some details. It would be interesting to hear the answers to some of your questions.