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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • I noticed that that “high speed resin” was sold out even if they were still bundling it with new printers

    Then I realized that the profile for that resin in their own official slicer had half the vertical resolution and half the exposure time. It’s something broken that they created just for allowing the marketing to say “the fastest printer on the market, full prints in 2 hours instead of 8”. Even the demo file that was given with the resin had layer delamination when printed, and that’s the best use case, an empty cylinder that needs no support and has a constant wall thickness all around



















  • But meanwhile lose all credibility. If you don’t want to commit to a specific piece of hardware, don’t sell it. A $5000 whiteboard with a $600 yearly subscription AND that requires paid Google workspace subscriptions for each user (100 employees=$12000 each year) will NEVER be ultra popular. They already knew from the beginning that they wouldn’t be possibly move millions of units of this and they would just cash in from the subscriptions.

    All files generated on this devices are proprietary and saved on their servers. As of now, it’s not possible to get them and open on a computer. When they pull the plug, they’re all gone.

    For example, when Twitter died and they sold all the forniture at the auction, they had more than an hundred devices like this. https://bid.hgpauction.com/past-auctions/herita10216?term=Jamboard

    Maybe the new management kept some of the boards, but here they spent half million in hardware + 60k yearly for the software licenses + another hundreds of thousands for the required Google workspace accounts for the users. And for what? For e-waste that ends with no drop-in replacement. Now corps need to quickly find an alternative and they need to pay extra to convert the generated files to the new platform.

    Behaving like this will definitely hurt future sales, as Google will be labeled as the supplier that suddenly disappears without a drop-in replacement.

    There are a lot of other companies that discontinue and render the purchased hardware a brick within a short timeframe, for example Cisco, but at least they have an upgrade path and not “we exit the market, good luck”.



  • They call them surveys but at the end of the 100 fake questions they ask a credit card for “verification” - at that point you’re silently forwarded to a different website where you subscribe to a scam service at 49 euro / month with a 7 day trial for 1 euro. This fine print is written in grey on a grey background, the victim at this point is tired to read from the 100s of fake questions and just says yes to everything. Chrome credit card auto fill helps the process by requiring just one extra click instead of typing the numbers. The user just want that manual/game/document and ran out of patience from fake countdowns and fake loading bars “checking if the file is available”