Bambu Lab’s Controversial ‘Authorization Control’ Hits Budget 3D Printers
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I'm happy I built a Voron Trident a few years ago instead of going for the Bambu Lab printer. It's more work of course, but I also know what parts are in it and how to fix it or upgrade it.
The only thing that one has to give Bambulab credit for is making 3D printing accessible to people who don't want to or don't have the skills to tinker with their printer.
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The only thing that one has to give Bambulab credit for is making 3D printing accessible to people who don't want to or don't have the skills to tinker with their printer.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah it'd just be nice if they weren't trying so hard to emulate all the bad parts of paper printer companies!
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Yeah it'd just be nice if they weren't trying so hard to emulate all the bad parts of paper printer companies!
Yeah, I absolutely agree!
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I was seriously considering upgrading to a bambulabs printer before all this. Instead I screwed a second tool head to my Ender 5 and will be sticking with that printer for the forseeable future.
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Restrictive tech never works when you apply it from the start. You need to capture the market first before you can start to apply that. And that is the road Bamboo labs looks to be heading down. It is the classic playbook:
- have some true disruptive innovation in some product that people will actually want to use your products for
- mass market your product and get loads of people singing parse about how innovate it is
- slowly start to lock down your product, typically behind the guise of safety and security
- start to squeeze your customers for as much money as you can with DRM or subscriptions
You wont succeed if you skip straight to step 4. But Bamboo have been slowly working their way up to it. It might take a few more years but I can see them eventually wanting DRM filament.
Totally correct.
XYZprinting didn't fail because of the DRM per se. They failed because they had an expensive priter with average quality, average learning curve, average reliability, and on top of that, they had stupid, expensive DRM cartridges that would frequently tangle and that you couldn't untangle without breaking the cartridge. And they didn't even have a decent selection of filaments and colors.
They were a below average product to begin with, and being the first company to slap DRM on the filament was just the nail in the coffin.
If it had been one of the big players of the time (Ender, Prusa, ...) who slowly snuck in DRM, it would have been much more likely to succeed.
- have some true disruptive innovation in some product that people will actually want to use your products for
