Imagine a Prusa where […] saved payment details which ensure that a fresh spool of Prusa filament arrives at your front door when it auto-detects that your printer is almost out.
Yeah, no, fuck off.
An opinion piece with no evidence that Prusa is actually floundering as claimed.
The author is responding in the comment section claiming he has used Prusa 3d printers and that while better it doesn’t justify the premium.
I would like to point the author and others to “premium” brands such as Dyson, Apple, Porsche.
Rarely do they have claims of value (and sometimes not even performance) but place a high premium on quality, ease of use and brand recognition.
Good luck reselling a Chinese 3d printer, a used Prusa on the other hand… no problem.
I like the part where he says printables was just launched. Uh. It was rebranded. And he says it’s not plug and play. Uh… Mk4 is very plug and play. And he says they have very few offerings… Yo… They have several that hit every aspect of the very niche market. They could expand to the US. Maybe they will. But the company seems to be doing a good job of not producing Chinese garbage and the printer is fairly accessible in the US. Biggest competitor is Bambu? Sure. I’ll wait to hear about all the broken Bambu printers as they age and the plastic parts break and cannot be repaired as the company provides almost no parts. Unlike prusa.
Wow this guy is an idiot, and clearly doesn’t understand what Prusa is about. The things he advocates for are disgusting, and counter to the entire mission of the company.
And no, Crealitys $800 flagship does not beat the MK4 in every way. People don’t buy Ender 3s and then are happy for a couple years like he suggests. They buy Enders and spend so much time and money replacing their shitty parts that Creality provides that they either get crazy and swear off Creality forever, or they get Stockholm Syndrome from all the effort they put into the machine to even get it to print and stick with it due to sunk cost fallacy.
No I don’t want cloud printing.
No I don’t want premium service contracts.
No I don’t want to ship my printer for maintenance.
No I don’t want auto shipping filament or even for Prusa to be able to connect to my printer at all for that matter.
Typical MBA type viewing things through an ECON101 lense.
If you want a reliable open source printer and don’t want to build it yourself, Prusa is the best option.
Why does this community let this dude spam hundreds of links a day? He never comments, so they’re not really a part of the community…
Prusa, the VanMoof of 3D printers?
If I would have to compare a printer manufacturer to VanMoof, it would be BambuLab, not Prusa.
