I was skeptical about the necessity for home security cameras — a late-night scare has now changed my mind
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Home security adoption is still driven by visceral events, not feature checklists. For consumer IoT builders, that means designing onboarding and messaging around specific moments of fear and reassurance, not generic "smart home" narratives.
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