Of course you do. More like, "if another entity has the right to alter something you 'own' regardless of how you feel about the matter, do you really own it?"
Of course you do. More like, "if another entity has the right to alter something you 'own' regardless of how you feel about the matter, do you really own it?"
I don't have a Cricut but this pisses me off on behalf of everyone who does. Cricut's official announcement /r/cricut is about as angry as you'd expect.
I don't have a Cricut but this pisses me off on behalf of everyone who does.
Same. Reminds me of when Adobe went full subscription model with Creative Suite. Pissed me -- and many, many others -- off so much. Even though my employer did pay for my subscription. But at the...
Same. Reminds me of when Adobe went full subscription model with Creative Suite. Pissed me -- and many, many others -- off so much. Even though my employer did pay for my subscription. But at the time, there really wasn't an alternative. And that's still mostly true today.
For Cricut, however, it seems like there are alternatives. Hopefully the backlash will be enough to get the company to back away and never look at this subscription model again.
This is my “utterly unsurprised” face. The primary reason why I never bought a cricut machine was that it was obvious that the company behind it were rent-seekers. Their earlier marketing focused...
This is my “utterly unsurprised” face.
The primary reason why I never bought a cricut machine was that it was obvious that the company behind it were rent-seekers. Their earlier marketing focused so much on their silly cartridges and buying designs from them. It was as if they wanted to hide the fact that you could make your own designs with it.
And now here they are quite literally seeking rent.
I did a short bit of googling to see if there was an open source project to replace their software, but it appears that they have been suing people who have attempted to circumvent their software.
They backed off in an extraordinarily limited way. "Legacy" accounts won't be limited in this way, new accounts starting in 2022 will only have an unspecified "affordable" path to unlimited use of...
They backed off in an extraordinarily limited way. "Legacy" accounts won't be limited in this way, new accounts starting in 2022 will only have an unspecified "affordable" path to unlimited use of their device. Seems like the bare minimum action to try and turn the heat down while not actually changing course, just delaying it and excluding a few from it.
In case you've been thinking about starting a side hustle making Calvin-Pissing-On-Things stickers or Love Laugh Live room decals... These days a 24"to 34" vinyl cutter (plotter) can be had brand...
In case you've been thinking about starting a side hustle making Calvin-Pissing-On-Things stickers or Love Laugh Live room decals...
These days a 24"to 34" vinyl cutter (plotter) can be had brand new for a few hundred US dollars. It'll speak HPGL so you can use whatever cutting software you like, it'll be user-serviceable, the consumables such as blades will probably have generics available, it'll use materials that conform to industry standards, and it'll run unsupervised until it runs out of material or electricity, whichever comes first.
If you're looking for something more user-friendly that works with a variety of materials (and a more direct Cricut competitor), you can also get a Silhouette Cameo. Their software is generally...
If you're looking for something more user-friendly that works with a variety of materials (and a more direct Cricut competitor), you can also get a Silhouette Cameo. Their software is generally regarded to be better and there are open-source tools so you don't even have to use them if you don't want to.
Wow that's rough. I personally have a Silhouette Cameo, and I'm wondering if they'll follow suit, or if they'll keep it as is. I think it's a weird decision. Like is it just profit driven, like...
Wow that's rough. I personally have a Silhouette Cameo, and I'm wondering if they'll follow suit, or if they'll keep it as is. I think it's a weird decision. Like is it just profit driven, like they want to make more money or is the change because cost of server space? Genuinely though, fuck this shit. You pay for a $100+ machine that uses proprietary software in order to even use the stupid thing! I'd be fucking livid too! I hope they get enough backlash to reconsider or up the design amount you can upload/cut. Such a shitty thing to do to their users.
I have a hard time viewing it as anything but profit driven. This is very small amounts of data (maybe a few megabytes per upload?) so there's no way a moderate user would use anything like...
Like is it just profit driven, like they want to make more money or is the change because cost of server space?
I have a hard time viewing it as anything but profit driven. This is very small amounts of data (maybe a few megabytes per upload?) so there's no way a moderate user would use anything like $10/month of resources on their backend.
Along with its machines, the company also provides two subscription offerings, Cricut Access and Cricut Access Premium. As of September 30, 2020, the company had nearly 1.2 million Paid Subscribers, and its total community of users grew 66% year-over-year.
This is 100% "growth hacking" type shit where they want to show investors graphs that slope up and to the right.
Yeah, I didn't think server stuff for what they're doing would be that intensive. God, what a bunch of schlubs. It feels so shitty, I genuinely hope they get way more backlash than they thought...
Yeah, I didn't think server stuff for what they're doing would be that intensive. God, what a bunch of schlubs. It feels so shitty, I genuinely hope they get way more backlash than they thought from this. Such a dick move to their users.
If you don't have access to the source code of something you own (and the ability to modify it), do you really own it?
Of course you do. More like, "if another entity has the right to alter something you 'own' regardless of how you feel about the matter, do you really own it?"
I don't have a Cricut but this pisses me off on behalf of everyone who does.
Cricut's official announcement
/r/cricut is about as angry as you'd expect.
Same. Reminds me of when Adobe went full subscription model with Creative Suite. Pissed me -- and many, many others -- off so much. Even though my employer did pay for my subscription. But at the time, there really wasn't an alternative. And that's still mostly true today.
For Cricut, however, it seems like there are alternatives. Hopefully the backlash will be enough to get the company to back away and never look at this subscription model again.
This is my “utterly unsurprised” face.
The primary reason why I never bought a cricut machine was that it was obvious that the company behind it were rent-seekers. Their earlier marketing focused so much on their silly cartridges and buying designs from them. It was as if they wanted to hide the fact that you could make your own designs with it.
And now here they are quite literally seeking rent.
I did a short bit of googling to see if there was an open source project to replace their software, but it appears that they have been suing people who have attempted to circumvent their software.
They backed off in an extraordinarily limited way. "Legacy" accounts won't be limited in this way, new accounts starting in 2022 will only have an unspecified "affordable" path to unlimited use of their device. Seems like the bare minimum action to try and turn the heat down while not actually changing course, just delaying it and excluding a few from it.
In case you've been thinking about starting a side hustle making Calvin-Pissing-On-Things stickers or Love Laugh Live room decals...
These days a 24"to 34" vinyl cutter (plotter) can be had brand new for a few hundred US dollars. It'll speak HPGL so you can use whatever cutting software you like, it'll be user-serviceable, the consumables such as blades will probably have generics available, it'll use materials that conform to industry standards, and it'll run unsupervised until it runs out of material or electricity, whichever comes first.
If you're looking for something more user-friendly that works with a variety of materials (and a more direct Cricut competitor), you can also get a Silhouette Cameo. Their software is generally regarded to be better and there are open-source tools so you don't even have to use them if you don't want to.
Wow that's rough. I personally have a Silhouette Cameo, and I'm wondering if they'll follow suit, or if they'll keep it as is. I think it's a weird decision. Like is it just profit driven, like they want to make more money or is the change because cost of server space? Genuinely though, fuck this shit. You pay for a $100+ machine that uses proprietary software in order to even use the stupid thing! I'd be fucking livid too! I hope they get enough backlash to reconsider or up the design amount you can upload/cut. Such a shitty thing to do to their users.
I have a hard time viewing it as anything but profit driven. This is very small amounts of data (maybe a few megabytes per upload?) so there's no way a moderate user would use anything like $10/month of resources on their backend.
By a shocking coincidence, one month ago: Crafting machine maker Cricut files for a $100 million IPO
This is 100% "growth hacking" type shit where they want to show investors graphs that slope up and to the right.
Yeah, I didn't think server stuff for what they're doing would be that intensive. God, what a bunch of schlubs. It feels so shitty, I genuinely hope they get way more backlash than they thought from this. Such a dick move to their users.
I'm literally forcing myself to stop reading more about this because it provoked an unhealthy amount of anger in me.