I suppose if a given machine can work in LAN or sneakernet mode, then it’s not THAT bad, but I was referring more to their heavy reliance on Cloud, closed source (possibly in violation of other projects’ licensing), and proprietary parts. If any 3D printer maker is going to start hiding features behind a paywall someday, it’s them.
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kitnaht@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bambu just has “future enshittification” written all over it.
I disagree. It’s the reason why everyone else is scrambling soooo fucking hard to catch up with them. The A1 is absolutely a killer value for a machine.
wjrii@lemmy.world 4 months ago
nous@programming.dev 4 months ago
Or the RFID chips on their spools.
They do quite a lot of things that are fine atm but are gateways to giving them a huge amount of control if they every want to flip that switch - like if they get brought out or their investors start wanting to squeezing them for all they are worth.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 months ago
I don’t think you understand how enshittification works. It comes in phases. Bambu is still in the early phase of providing value to the consumer to grow marketshare. But it has all the Hallmarks of “we’re going to lock all this shit down once we’ve destroyed the competition, then jack up prices while removing features”. As opposed to virtually every other company that has an open-source ethos.
kitnaht@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Been around quite a while, and I understand perfectly how enshittification works. However, this still uses open source technologies at its core, and you’ll always be able to use those things. You can’t enshittify the core feature of this machine, because it’s built into it.