It's a gimmick and is scary as fuck. Look at open cameras like http://www.insecam.org/en/byrating/ and imagine people using the bare minimum setup on their devices out of ignorance and getting wrecked by scammers and creeps.
Even Amazon employees were busted looking into ring camera users personal cameras,searching for cameras called "bedroom", "bathroom", etc.
Microcenter is great, especially for nerds. Sucks if one isn't close, but they ship.