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0 points2muchcoffeeman3y ago0 comments

Bambu just proves the point. Do you think they are going to make more integrated and closed systems or start opening up?

Someone has to take the hit with development. And that costs money.

>but the value of their devices to date just does not equal the price

Has the value in terms of price to features ever really been competitive? I got the MK3 soon after it was released and even then you could get an i3 clone for much cheaper that produced similar results. The Chinese clones didn’t have 3D printed parts either.

But now is the time Prusa is not price competitive?

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eropple3y ago· 2 in thread

In the last year, I've bought two separate sub-$250 3D printers that I just threw on a table after connecting four screws and a couple cables and they were dead-on out of the box.

Prusa's hat has been "it just works!". That's been the conceptual moat. That is the part that isn't distinctive anymore.

postalrat3y ago

Most cheap tools work at least once right out of the box.

eropple3y ago

I've had both of mine for six and three months, respectively.

They're inexpensive. But they're not cheap. That's a problem for selling $1100 bedslingers.

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