> Why haven't they been totally displaced by a manufacturer with a cheaper clone, also offering a good enough brand and ecosystem to compete? I looked into thi

> Why haven't they been totally displaced by a manufacturer with a cheaper clone, also offering a good enough brand and ecosystem to compete? I looked into this recently because I wanted a handlebar cam for bike touring. The answer is that the competition is, by and large, not good enough. It fails on the obvious stuff: resolution, battery life, ruggedness, UI, software support. There are plenty of action cams that do one or two of those well, but no one except GoPro ticks all the boxes. I honestly wasn't expecting to buy a GoPro when I started researching - especially because my main interest is timelapse rather than video. But after days looking into it, that's the conclusion I came to.