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Re: GoPro warned it may not survive

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Post by ChadNauseam »

josefritzishere wrote: post #3

But people want a GoPro, and people hate AI. It's like the market isn't listening or something.

Right now, consumers spend much more money on AI than GoPros. More on AI than GoPro's entire product category (including all their competitors). That's not even counting businesses' AI spending. So it seems like the market is listening closely.

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Post by asdff »

saltyoldman wrote: post #8

They may need to expand their marketing past red bull. Perhaps gardeners, home builders and landscapers. Maybe come up with a marketing package where you can buy a gopro and get a youtube video boost via a YouTube GoPro + Creator video drop (one per purchase).

Yeah, people look down on meta glasses, but my instagram feed is full of tradesmen using them and building channels with 5 or 6 figure followings. Something calming about watching well executed tradecraft I find.

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Post by watwut »

josefritzishere wrote: post #7
figassis wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RN the market is not you. The amount of investment being pushed to AI dwarfs what you collectively spend. So the market now is driven by the IPO dream where you'll hold the bag, jobless.

Investment is not demand. You are describing the problem. That irrational exuberance is why the AI money pit is going to implode.

GoPro issue is that memory chips are too expensive. And new memory chip factories are not being created, because that is long term investment.

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Post by xnx »

saltyoldman wrote: post #8

They may need to expand their marketing past red bull. Perhaps gardeners, home builders and landscapers. Maybe come up with a marketing package where you can buy a gopro and get a youtube video boost via a YouTube GoPro + Creator video drop (one per purchase).

How have they not competed in the cop bodycam space?

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Post by asdff »

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #12

I don't care so much about GoPro. I am worried about Fujifilm though, they seem on the cusp of a golden era.

I wish they'd update their model lines at the same time. Frustrating how they are all at uneven paces in terms of getting sensor or AF upgrades. You might want an x-pro body but it is what two generations behind the xt-5 now. xt-5 gen upgrades didn't trickle to the xe line until like 3 years later.

Re: GoPro warned it may not survive

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Post by merelysounds »

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #12

I don't care so much about GoPro. I am worried about Fujifilm though, they seem on the cusp of a golden era.

I hope they are working hard on the xpro4!

Retro styled cameras are only gaining in popularity; the competition is increasing, but Fujifilm has a big head start.

And still many concepts to try out. We have yet to see true manual focus confirmation in stills mode (something a retro nikon zf has been praised for), or an autofocus capable lens with a distance scale (leica q style).

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Post by nikisweeting »

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?

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

merelysounds wrote: post #17
kylehotchkiss wrote: post #12

I don't care so much about GoPro. I am worried about Fujifilm though, they seem on the cusp of a golden era.

I hope they are working hard on the xpro4! Retro styled cameras are only gaining in popularity; the competition is increasing, but Fujifilm has a big head start. And still many concepts to try out. We have yet to see true manual focus confirmation in stills mode (something a retro nikon zf has been praised for), or an autofocus capable lens with a distance scale (leica q style).

Wishing hard alongside you. I still love my XPro3 <3. I talked to one of their brand reps at Samy's Camera Santa Ana 2 months back and he said it's definitely on their radar but the manufacturing is a bottleneck.

Re: GoPro warned it may not survive

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Post by Lammy »

No sympathy from me. I have a GoPro Hero11 Black and it's easily the worst camera product I've ever used.

Damn thing overheats constantly. 4K60 never works for more than 15-or-so minutes even with an AC vent aimed directly at it. 1080p60 is its limit for any long-duration recording, and even then it still overheats from time to time if I'm in a particularly hot environment. Made me realize why so much of their marketing shows it being used underwater and skydiving lol

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