Comment Re: I Want One Too! (Score 2) 134
I don't think volume explains it completely. The most expensive components in an IP camera (camera, network, controller) are mass produced in incredible quantities already, whether it's for smartphones or dashcams or Gopros or point and shoot cameras, and stuff like smartphones with far more technology included (super hi res touchscreen, LTE modem, battery, flash, vastly more complex software) are cheaper than all but the junkiest 720p IP cameras.
*Components* isn't the reason, the components are dirt cheap. I don't even think assembly is a big reason -- security cameras are ubiquitous, so assembly, case parts, etc. should be widely available, too.
Really the closest you come is game cameras, which mostly are missing the networking part but kind of make up for it in complexity with motion sensing.