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"Gotchanomics" is such a shitty model - you get something valuable, begin to trust the vendor, establish a system with their equipment, and then they pull a bai
by robbedpeter 5y ago
"Gotchanomics" is such a shitty model - you get something valuable, begin to trust the vendor, establish a system with their equipment, and then they pull a bait and switch, trying to get away with shitty service, mediocre replacements for good products, moving services to the cloud and subscription based nonsense - Nickel&Dime As A Service.
If I'm faced with paying premium rates, I'm going with Cisco and premium vendors. Ubiquiti's value was good equipment at reasonable prices to the point that you could buy spares for reliability and save 90% of the cost of service contracts from premium vendors. That differential was the absolute wrong space for them to try to tap for more profit, because nothing else was special about the brand. Cheap, decent, "good enough" network gear is now a market available for exploitation, ubiquiti has lost it.
- GekkePrutser 5y ago> "Gotchanomics" is such a shitty model - you get something valuable, begin to trust the vendor, establish a system with their equipment, and then they pull a bait and switch, trying to get away with shitty service, mediocre replacements for good products, moving services to the cloud and subscription based nonsense - Nickel&Dime As A Service. Exactly, well put. For what it's worth, as I have been bitten by this practice of "gotchanomics" too many times that I've become a bit sensitive to any signs pointing to it. I'm not 100% sure Unifi is doing this with their existing products, but new ranges like the video stuff require a modern management box which in turn requires a cloud account as far as I've heard. I've decided not to buy those for this reason. But it undermines my confidence in buying new gear for the ecosystem because it really feels like this will be the next step.