- 1 month
What a crazy fuckup. You have a household name almost for action cameras and you keep releasing overpriced crappy products.
- Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish1 month
A lot of the comments look to me like part of the reason for the failure. At least the old ones continue to work almost forever. They product was so good that people aren’t replacing them. This leads to them releasing overpriced crappy products to make up for it.
I wish we lived in a world where making the best product, that is reliable and durable, for as cheap as possible was standard and made sense. We’ve essentially made it so it doesn’t work.
The correct option seems to be, to me, for them to not have scaled like they have. They should have been a niche durable action camera, and their costs would have stayed low. Every product that sells though is told they have to scale as much as possible forever, until it kills the product.
- 1 month
I suppose their shareholders had other ideas, they just failed to have the right people piloting that ship. Other companies took over their space and now it’s too late. They should probably attempt what you said, scale back and just release a solid action camera again.
- OR3X@lemmy.worldEnglish1 month
Not surprising, honestly. DJI had been eating their lunch and GoPro never could figure out how to keep their damn cameras from overheating all the time. Everyone I know switched to DJI.
- Mantzy81@aussie.zoneEnglish1 month
This is what seriously limited my use of the GP10. It’s a real shame as I love the camera but it just stopped me from using it due to that unreliability.
1 monthNow that they’ve milked the brand dry, my bet is they’ll either:
Let it go bankrupt and walk away with the profits, or
Sell to someone who will use what’s left of the brand’s credibility to drain any remaining suckers hoping for a revival.
- Unstoppable_Flop@lemmy.zipEnglish1 month
3 Get a government bailout and then walk away with the profits
