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Some giant did enter the market. Stratasys bought MakerBot in a bid to own the hobby space. MBs reputation rapidly diminished before and after thanks to a few b
by sircastor 4y ago
Some giant did enter the market. Stratasys bought MakerBot in a bid to own the hobby space. MBs reputation rapidly diminished before and after thanks to a few boneheaded moves.
What’s amazing to me is how Prusa, the undisputed leader in the space, is fully open source and continues to fully fund itself and research new technologies. They’re the antithesis of what Makerbot and Stratasys are, and are a successful company.
- MBCook 4y agoI know a ton of people hate MB for going closed, but what were they supposed to do? They spend all that time and money doing R&D to develop new printers and then Chinese groups would take those plans and sell identical printers for a huge discount since they didn’t have to pay American salaries or do any real R&D? It was like that terrible time Apple tried to have clones. The clones just undercut Apple and made sales even worse, causing them to lose money faster. Except at least the clones paid some licensing fee. Seems like they had to go closed or fold.
- syedkarim 4y agoI don’t disagree with this reality. What I don’t understand is how Prusa manages to do so well.