This is a good little video about how they got to the point they're at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ58noGoBm4
They are basically the poster child of enshittification (as far as Canadian restaurants go anyway).
KingOfTheCouch
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BB being able to protect itself from the big players is actually a success story of patents. The 800 lb gorilla's of the industry never made as good of a keyboard, but if they could have copied BB's superior design, they would have stomped them in a heartbeat.
There's a lot of shit about what happens for a dying company and selling patents and so forth that absolutely is scummy. Serious discussion needs to happen there, but calling for them to be abolished? That's just naive.
Hummingbird the drone unicorn?
My brain is itchy now.
Wait, you can get much faster than hot'n ready? You give a teenager some money, he immediately hands you a pizza. Do those places see you come in the door and just start throwing pizzas in your general direction before you get to the counter?
Some things are more important.
Well, that's a bit apples and oranges. Local is usually > any corporate chain. And if you care about eating health, maybe avoid fast food of any kind.
Oh god it's so true...
In the movie the glasses let the wearer see the truth. This template is often used backwards but it's correct in this case.
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Re: marketing etc comment at the bottom
This is certainly marketing, whether for the product or the service. However, it's also got an educational component which is why I've enjoyed Slant3D's videos - I have no use for a print farm service but some of the ideas and principles they want to encourage still apply to my hobbyist designs. That said, whenever I talk about 3d printing with friends and family, someone will talk about doing it as a business and I point to a service like this for that.
There is certainly a grey area to balance but I would lump this content in educational and worthy of discussion. And that's probably the biggest thing to encourage with a post here - where is the discussion going when sharing content. As a community grows in volume of posts, stricter standards and forking off communities for different niches need to happen.