Awesome post - really interesting to see the evolution and how it was all started without the help of sites like Kickstarter (seems like that's where they would have started if the GoPro was about to come out today).
GoPro Evolution: From 35mm Film To America's Fastest-Growing Camera Company
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#12Meh, consumer news.
As far as I know the GoPro is based on Ambarella’s platforms. Here are some specifications, a teardown and a look at their newest platform:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1nsYd3lG60 http://www.ambarella.com/products/consumer-hybrid-cameras.ht... http://www.anandtech.com/show/6652/ambarella-announces-a9-ca...
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is always going to be a significant low light advantage to having a larger lense and sensor. Add a mourning bracket / wrist strap, improved noise reduction and there is only so close a camera phone can get.
Yes, that's true, but when camera phones will be as good as e.g. Canon 5D Mark iii (and they will, relatively soon even) then that quality will be good enough for practically everyone. At that point only professionals need better quality.
Sensors are getting better, but the optical characteristics of a lens that fits in a cellphone are limited by physics (namely diffraction).
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#14The competition for the GoPro isn't cellphones. It's Google Glass.
That is, if Google Glass is waterproof/shockproof etc
Oh and GoPros are not only tied to a person, but often tied to objects (like bikes, airplanes, boats, etc)
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#15GoPro's success is based on one thing, It does it's job very well.
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#16The competition for the GoPro isn't cellphones. It's Google Glass.
It's neither probably. Their competition is other "action" cameras within more convenient packages. Luckily for GoPro they still excel in video quality (in their category).
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#17Not to down play the immense success, but having a prominent Silicon Valley VC father and a 100k initial investment on his part must have been crucial in getting the injection mouldings done and ready for volume production.
That was pre-kickstarter days. Kickstarter has levelled the playing ground for other hardware entrepreneurs in getting early support to pay for the tooling and moulding process.
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#18The competition for the GoPro isn't cellphones. It's Google Glass.
That is, if Google Glass is waterproof/shockproof etc Oh and GoPros are not only tied to a person, but often tied to objects (like bikes, airplanes, boats, etc)
Yup. You can't take 6 Google Glasses and suction-cup them all over a car.
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#19I'm really impressed by the timeline on the article. Appears to be implemented with https://github.com/athletics/infostory ; anybody know if this was this custom made just for Forbes, or even just for this article? Seems like a ton of effort for a small detail, but it really enhanced the article for me.
Edit: Better googling yields this article which talks a little bit about the timeline, so definitely not just for the article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/lewisdvorkin/2012/09/13/inside-f...
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#20The competition for the GoPro isn't cellphones. It's Google Glass.
It's neither probably. Their competition is other "action" cameras within more convenient packages. Luckily for GoPro they still excel in video quality (in their category).
Yes. I was thinking particularly of the #2 action camera vendor, Contour ( http://contour.com/ ) as the GoPro's main competition right now.
Though Google glass and whoever competes with it will get there too, eventually.