Trust me, it's not always about convenience for some of us remote camera users.

In my case, I've got a camera in my elderly parent's back yard as there have been a few falls in the back yard, and one break-in some years back.

That seems like more trouble than it's worth though. Do you like just check every hour to see if someone has fallen or something? That seems like something that could become either an obsession or something you'd forget to do.

Not the OP, but I have a significant amount of anxiety sometimes about if something bad has happened or if my pets are okay or whatever. It's an extreme version of "did I forget to turn the over off".

Being able to remote in and go "ah, everything's fine" basically can instantly turn such anxieties off, rather than say, having to live with it until you finish out the work day and can head home.

This made me wonder if there's a place for a company to disrupt the video cloud industry by selling CCTV cameras and devices that would require physical updates sent on a usb drive.

Get this: closed circuit television systems actually existed before updates could be delivered by the internet. Another crazy fact: there are still products sold which don't connect to the internet. You don't see nearly as many ads on these products though and don't seem to be as popular these days.

It's not actually hard to do that today with existing equipment: Put it all on a network switch and then just... don't plug it into the Internet. Plenty of on-premise solutions exist and work with or without remote connectivity.