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I bought a GoPro Hero 8 a month ago, and for what it is, it works well enough. But I've been really disappointed in GoPro's attitude towards openness. They've l
by russellbeattie 7y ago
I bought a GoPro Hero 8 a month ago, and for what it is, it works well enough. But I've been really disappointed in GoPro's attitude towards openness. They've locked down the USB port, WiFi and the OS pretty much completely.
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.
- Asuchug4 7y agoBefore 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.
- mackrevinack 7y agocar dash cam is something I would like to do with my gopro when I'm not using it