Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed

Re:Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed by balls187 on Friday February 21, 2025 @01:32PM (#43131148)

My partner has difficulty sleep unless it is the perfect environment (black out curtains, noise cancellation, sound bath, temperature), and is more prone to the effects of a single bad nights sleep. For people like her, $20/mo + $2000 fee is a small price to pay for a solution to a very difficult problem.

I would of course, attempt to veto unnecessary IoT devices and subscriptions for usage, but this would be a fight I would likely not win.

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Re:Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed by squeaky-clean on Friday February 21, 2025 @01:38PM (#43131218)

They're not complaining about the price. They're complaining about the high price for a bed where those high priced features stop working if your internet goes down, or there is a server outage, or you stop paying a monthly fee, or the original company goes bankrupt.

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Re:Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed by binarymax on Friday February 21, 2025 @01:41PM (#43131259)

How in the world does this necessitate a subscription? All of these things can work without centralization, setup once, and contained entirely within the home.

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Re:Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed by balls187 on Friday February 21, 2025 @01:50PM (#43131363)

> How in the world does this necessitate a subscription?

I can only speculate.

But, there is demand to improve sleep quality. The provider wants to charge a monthly fee for that.

The market simply puts buys and sellers together. People making business decisions will stick with Econ 101--charge what the market will bare, and why shouldn't they?

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Re:Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed by hn_acc1 on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:44PM (#43133430)

>charge what they market will bare

They want you to sleep without any clothing?

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Re:Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed by exe34 on Friday February 21, 2025 @02:29PM (#43131837)

She won't get any sleep if the wifi is down.

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Re:Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed by balls187 on Friday February 21, 2025 @03:44PM (#43132748)

Or if the power is out.

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Re:Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed by geodel on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:20PM (#43133141)

I think there is some naming convention gap here. I would call it Sleep Equipment as we have exercise equipments. Then folks will find pricing more reasonable. There is further opportunity to differentiate market with Sleep, Sleep Pro and Sleep Enterprise products.

The pro and enterprise version would allow local server setup for critical sleep equipment functioning and can manage all beds in a household or hotel etc . It can update the version of software or data models when its online and new features are available on cloud server.

I surmise at 300 dollar/month for pro version could be really attractive proposition. Of course local server setup and maintenance can be charged separately.

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Re:Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed by pgh on Friday February 21, 2025 @06:36PM (#43134458)

If you don’t want IOT for the bed warmer/chiller then there’s this:

https://sleep.me/product/cube-sleep-system

It works rather well, I’m tempted to reverse-engineer the remote control protocol for home automation purposes.

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