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GoPro lays off 270

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I think the most interesting quote is: ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?

I think its the knocks are starting to match their quality for 1/3 the price.

Definitely

I think it’s more that 99% of people don’t need a gopro. I’m a damn good mountain biker and snowboarder but the footage i would get with a go pro would be pretty boring !!

Agreed, action cams are just overhead you don’t need when doing adventure / action spots. Fun once or twice then the novelty wears off and you just want to focus on the sport.

I’ve also lost plenty of footage using my GoPro, cliff jumps in exotic locations etc, get home and and corrupt video files etc. Turned me off it

I had the same experience with drones, which are another popular use for GoPro cameras. It was fun for a few weeks and then stuff breaks, doesn't work right, etc. I'm glad I never spent a ton of money on an expensive drone or camera.

Self-fulfilling experience? Buy cheap stuff; it breaks or doesn't work right; regret the experience and write it off?

Not sure. You don't have to be Christopher Nolan for it to be interesting.

You can use it as a kind of dashcam to document what you are doing, watch it after the fact to look at what you can improve, what went wrong, etc. and then discard the footage and start again.

Or if it was somehow streamable it would surely find an audience. Even marbles running down hills get crazy view counts on Youtube!

Yep, the 'you wouldn't believe what just happened' stories you trade with your skiing/boarding/biking/skating friends are way more interesting with 'check out this footage' at the end.

Even if you need a gopro, your usage will be probably limited once the hype is passed. You will probably never buy a new go pro either because the first one works fine or because of its limited usage. The next buy may probably be a drone that follows you with a camera.

For me, cutting taken videos to a max. 2 min excerpt showing highlights only got way too time intensive. Uncut videos barely became touched twice.

Also that people thought GoPro would have some kind of network effect: sharing content with each other or GoPro-exclusive accessories or something to keep people on the GoPro platform. Without that, the knockoffs can eat their lunch.

I would think it is their huge failure of a drone.

The GoPro 4 was disappointing after the GoPro 3, in some ways it was a step backwards. They didn't provide a compelling reason to upgrade and left people who were previously loyal to the brand looking elsewhere

appears so

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/04/gopro-cuts-200-300-jobs-la...

Yes. Same quality with even less than 1/3rd of the price, probably 1/4th or 1/5th if you buy on Aliexpress or Banggood.

It's unclear what they can offer / invent to change that.

This is from March 2017.

there is a layoff but the link here is wrong: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gopro-redundancies/gopro-...

mods, maybe update the link to the current one?

The uploaded title seems to be cut short, as the title of the article is "GoPro to lay off 270 workers in an effort to cut costs".

never understood why they didn't market a dedicated dash cam variant. there are dash cams in their price range, certainly within the Hero5 and stripped of water proofing needs and such surely they could have banked on their name to push them. site security and more as well.

this article is fro MAR 15, 2017

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