Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great?
John@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks agoI think 3D-Printers have just this DIY image for me and that’s why i thought the general 3D-Printer user is more tech-savvy and aware.
If they would tell me that my ESP32 needs cloud connection to use them i would be furious to.
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
The industry is evolving. It happens in every industry eventually. When any one OEM corners a sufficient market size (like Bambu), they start taking freedom from the user to lock them into their ecosystem. Then all the other OEMs go “well if they’re doing it I guess we can do it too”. This is what you see trickle down from Apple all the time: headphone jacks, glued together devices, soldered RAM, and most recently unhinged RAM and storage prices, etc.
It didn’t seem to work for Bambu but they will back down and then try it again in another 12 months or make smaller changes. They just boiled the frog too quickly.
spitfire@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Apple’s RAM/storage prices have been unhinged for a long time. I try to avoid any upgrades when I buy their products, it’s usually better to get the higher model - I.e. with better processor/better product line (which usually has a better starting RAM/storage), than to upgrade a base model
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
yeah but it’s only relatively recently that other OEMs are adopting these pricing strategies.
spitfire@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Do you mean having a lot higher margins on upgrades? I don’t think that’s true either, but maybe they’ve been getting more aggressive on that front over time.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
I think you mean devolving