Re:GoPro cuts workforce, changes sales strategy
by Asuchug4 on Friday April 17, 2020 @03:13AM
(#22896894)
Before buying Hero 7, I watched a lot of reviews and tried to decide between older but still powerful Sony action camera. The quality was great, but sometimes GoPro decided to freeze. It is very annoying to find that your camera stopped recording 20 minutes ago. I thought that my model might be just a bit faulty.
Then comes the GoPro 8, and the improvement noted by few tech reviewers was that it no longer freezes. Totally destroyed any trust in reviewers I had left. No one told a thing about freezes in Hero 7.
Re:GoPro cuts workforce, changes sales strategy
by mackrevinack on Friday April 17, 2020 @03:17AM
(#22896908)
car dash cam is something I would like to do with my gopro when I'm not using it
I think this is the type of company that would really benefit from an excited and engaged hacker community. The GoPro could be a camera-centric IoT device, used for a ton of things from webcams to 3D imaging to a bunch more. But there's no support at all for developers.
It seems like they were going in that direction early on, then changed their strategy and killed their SDK and dev program. It's too bad. This will definitely be my last GoPro as a result.