It doesn't print cute little pictures. That seems like a missed opportunity.
Polaroid Cube
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Re: Polaroid Cube
#102I think it's going to be amazingly difficult for Polaroid, or anyone for that matter, to take on GoPro. For whatever reason, GoPro has captured the imagination of the video/photo creating public in a way that few brands have. For several years after the iPhone came out, competing phones could match or exceed its specs, but were largely viewed as toys by comparison. In the same way, GoPro will enjoy a near monopoly on…
Nice try, blatant GoPro investor. GoPro isn't nearly as stable a mark as people give it credit for. It's not synonymous with a unique product or service so much as an invented product. This new Polaroid entrant will be dubbed the "cheap GoPro" so much, it'll become a "GoPro". Millions of moms all across the world will buy their sons and daughters the cheap GoPro. The more successful GoPro's competitors become - the more "GoPro" they become. Until everything is Kleenex and Xerox and nothing matters. Side note, I wish my beloved Zombie Kodak was as playful as Polaroid.
Re: Polaroid Cube
#103Finally someone else is stepping into the GoPro market. Good to see competition here. I know the feature sets aren't identical but sometimes worse is better.
>Finally
Contour was the original competitor to GoPro. In a lot of ways it was a superior product. The company went defunct for a while but recently has been brought back.
Re: Polaroid Cube
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe that's supposed to be read in the same way as "it is 5 megapixels"...
It would have taken you 5 second to verify that no, it's not supposed to be read that way. > It’s wide angle lens provides 124° of coverage so you can get the big shot.
The site wasn't loading so I could only go by the original comment. :-/
Re: Polaroid Cube
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think that's true - I've not seen a single style guide that suggests that!
I made no claim about what style guides suggest. I merely claimed that deliberately using "it's" for both forms is increasingly common in written English.
My bias is to doubt that, but I could be convinced by data. Do you have any evidence that such usage is deliberate?
Re: Polaroid Cube
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed, I understand that fully. My point is that the English language is not prescriptive in practice. In fact, even if you're a prescriptivist, you could easily argue that "its" is a special case, since most English possessives are formed with apostrophe s.
Please stop making excuses for illiteracy. It's nonsense like this that contributes to the decline of educational standards.
It's not an excuse for illiteracy. Language trends change over time, including among highly educated people.
Re: Polaroid Cube
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
I made no claim about what style guides suggest. I merely claimed that deliberately using "it's" for both forms is increasingly common in written English.
My bias is to doubt that, but I could be convinced by data. Do you have any evidence that such usage is deliberate?
No, I do not have any evidence on the portion of uses that are deliberate. But it doesn't have to be deliberate in the sense that the writer is consciously trying to change the trend. Trends change slowly and "naturally," sometimes even due to misunderstandings of the earlier usages. For example, the word "apron" is widely considered correct and standard, but it arose from a misunderstanding of the phrase "a napron" (from Old French "napperon") as "an apron."
Re: Polaroid Cube
#108I didn't see it mentioned, so I have to bring up that a magnet mount will not cut it for action sports where you might 'crash'. I know multiple skiers who have lost their GoPro in the snow because mount plastic snapped on a decent fall. I can't imagine a magnet will do better.
Re: Polaroid Cube
#109Finally someone else is stepping into the GoPro market. Good to see competition here. I know the feature sets aren't identical but sometimes worse is better.
>Finally Contour was the original competitor to GoPro. In a lot of ways it was a superior product. The company went defunct for a while but recently has been brought back.
I have a Contour; I bought it mainly because specs-wise it was much cheaper than gopro equivalents. There was also some driver issues with the latest gopro model at the time. In hindsight though I think I should have got a gopro. There are certain features that the Contour doesn't have that I would imagine should be easy to implement: mainly the ability to take a mixture of video and still images on the fly. I also think that the video quality is now lagging behind gopro's for equivalent models. Having said all that, I do think they are still a good, cheap, alternative.
Re: Polaroid Cube
#110I didn't see it mentioned, so I have to bring up that a magnet mount will not cut it for action sports where you might 'crash'. I know multiple skiers who have lost their GoPro in the snow because mount plastic snapped on a decent fall. I can't imagine a magnet will do better.
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