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Good riddance, GoPro squandered their market lead for many years and shipped bafflingly mediocre software that seemed to add more bugs with every generation. I

Good riddance, GoPro squandered their market lead for many years and shipped bafflingly mediocre software that seemed to add more bugs with every generation. I hope Insta360, DJI, and many more competitors spring up out of their ashes. Assuming fast microsd cards for writes, how much DDR RAM do they really need to buffer videos during recording? 4gb? 8gb?

camillomiller 4mo ago
So US Ai schizophrenia kills an American company and you’re hoping two Chinese companies (one of which the US has banned on fabricated accusations) take its place. Man, what a timeline
- JumpCrisscross 4mo ago
  > US Ai schizophrenia I bought an Insta360 before the AI mania because the software was simpler, price cheaper and reviews around build quality more positive.
- rconti 4mo ago
  GoPro has been squandering their lead for like 15 years.
  - bsimpson 4mo ago
    I feel like I heard this same rumor a decade+ ago. Not a rumor when announced on a public market, but it's not the first time they've been perceived as a precarious has-been.
    - coldtea 4mo ago
      They've been a has-been for the last 5 years at least. They didn't go under, but still lost the title and tons of market share to DJI and 360
    - rconti 4mo ago
      They can be a precarious has-been without being actually bankrupt.
- toasty228 4mo ago
  > the free market is amazing, I love the free market > wait no not like that Americans slowly discovering this isn't the 80s anymore and that China is beating them at their own game, delightful
- coldtea 4mo ago
  Not everybody on HN is from US or takes patriotic loyalty over tech. Purely on tech, those are better. In 2015 GoPro was better - for a while the only real game it town. But they did stupid moves, and missed obvious plays.
- nikisweeting 4mo ago
  I don't care what country they are from if after 15 years they cant figure out how to make a camera that doesn't reset its clock every time you recharge it.
KomoD 4mo ago
Yeah, I've heard a lot of bad stuff about GoPro, and most of the GoPro footage I've seen has been pretty shitty in my opinion, so I've never thought about getting one.

camillomiller 4mo ago

So US Ai schizophrenia kills an American company and you’re hoping two Chinese companies (one of which the US has banned on fabricated accusations) take its place. Man, what a timeline

JumpCrisscross 4mo ago
> US Ai schizophrenia I bought an Insta360 before the AI mania because the software was simpler, price cheaper and reviews around build quality more positive.
rconti 4mo ago
GoPro has been squandering their lead for like 15 years.
- bsimpson 4mo ago
  I feel like I heard this same rumor a decade+ ago. Not a rumor when announced on a public market, but it's not the first time they've been perceived as a precarious has-been.
  - coldtea 4mo ago
    They've been a has-been for the last 5 years at least. They didn't go under, but still lost the title and tons of market share to DJI and 360
  - rconti 4mo ago
    They can be a precarious has-been without being actually bankrupt.
toasty228 4mo ago
> the free market is amazing, I love the free market > wait no not like that Americans slowly discovering this isn't the 80s anymore and that China is beating them at their own game, delightful
coldtea 4mo ago
Not everybody on HN is from US or takes patriotic loyalty over tech. Purely on tech, those are better. In 2015 GoPro was better - for a while the only real game it town. But they did stupid moves, and missed obvious plays.
nikisweeting 4mo ago
I don't care what country they are from if after 15 years they cant figure out how to make a camera that doesn't reset its clock every time you recharge it.

KomoD 4mo ago

Yeah, I've heard a lot of bad stuff about GoPro, and most of the GoPro footage I've seen has been pretty shitty in my opinion, so I've never thought about getting one.