RE: How the top 3D printer company just screwed the pooch

Really sad to hear this. I was very hopeful that AMS and lidar features would develop into dramatic improvements. However, not having a Bambu Labs printer myself left me unaware of some of the sketchy proprietary moves the company was making. All I know about them are promotional materials, and some reviews.

"...all print jobs were routed through their servers..."

Reviewers didn't explain this, and I had no idea.

While the company may cave to the collapse of the market for their products, that this crap even was pulled is a terrible revelation of the intentions of the company to further wall their ecosystem off from other manufacturers and potential synchronies. This is diametrically opposed to the philosophical basis of the market and new developments coming, and is particularly distressing coming from the company that had produced such advances.

Louis Rossmann has noted that tech products that access the internet are increasingly being turned into subscription based markets, rather than sales, with ToS's being revised unilaterally after sales, restricting owners' rights to their equipment. I really had high hopes for multiple printheads to eliminate, or dramatically reduce, the need for purging with the AMS system, and the appearance of lidar to herald the eventual introduction of robotic arms able to locate printheads precisely despite mechanical slop, and perhaps escape the print bed, at least for some materials.

Apparently that will not be forthcoming from Bambu Labs, because it seems like they are intent on maximizing their revenue from existing products, rather than making new technological leaps capitalizing on their prior introduction of AMS and lidar in table top machines. At least the market more broadly has fervent ferment of many brands and will not be reduced to Bambu's attempt to lock down it's products.

Thanks!