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I hear you. As we set out to design the Glowforge, we did not make the decision lightly to engineer it as a network-native device. It makes the experience bette

I hear you. As we set out to design the Glowforge, we did not make the decision lightly to engineer it as a network-native device. It makes the experience better in many ways - lower cost, more powerful, and easier to use - but the flip side is that if you're not connected, you can't use it. That's a real drawback. That said, we prefer our Dropcams to our closed circuit TVs and our Fitbits to our pedometers. We realize that some people may not like the tradeoffs we made, but we hope some folks are as excited about it as we are.

keenerd 12y ago
Ethically if it is truly nothing more than a cost saving measure, you'll do the $0 option and release a completely unsupported server disk image for people to self-host on their LAN. Think of how much money you can save on CPU and network ingress. On a purely technical side, I have a strong suspicion that "cost saving" is a smokescreen. A camera would be useful for quality assurance, A/B testing new routing equations and at most calibrating the origin point of the bed. But maybe I am a little jaded from SimCity 5.