XYZprinting didn’t fail because of the DRM per se. They failed because they had an expensive priter with average quality, average learning curve, average reliability, and on top of that, they had stupid, expensive DRM cartridges that would frequently tangle and that you couldn’t untangle without breaking the cartridge. And they didn’t even have a decent selection of filaments and colors.
They were a below average product to begin with, and being the first company to slap DRM on the filament was just the nail in the coffin.
If it had been one of the big players of the time (Ender, Prusa, …) who slowly snuck in DRM, it would have been much more likely to succeed.
Totally correct.
XYZprinting didn’t fail because of the DRM per se. They failed because they had an expensive priter with average quality, average learning curve, average reliability, and on top of that, they had stupid, expensive DRM cartridges that would frequently tangle and that you couldn’t untangle without breaking the cartridge. And they didn’t even have a decent selection of filaments and colors.
They were a below average product to begin with, and being the first company to slap DRM on the filament was just the nail in the coffin.
If it had been one of the big players of the time (Ender, Prusa, …) who slowly snuck in DRM, it would have been much more likely to succeed.