Too Awesome for Its Own Good?

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An interesting perspective on the Action Camera Market Leader:

Consider the hardware. GoPro’s first high-definition camera hit the shelves roughly six years ago at $300 (and now costs $129). It lacks many of the features available on the latest, $500 iteration, but how many weekend warriors adjust their own ISO limit, set up time-lapse landscape shots, or require “liquid smooth” slow motion at 240 frames per second? Is a remote control necessary for something that is often strapped to your person? GoPro now hosts an annual clinic to make sure action-sports athletes better understand everything the little cameras can do.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gopro-too ... 03875.html


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Considered "NOT so awesome if you are Polaroid the inventor of the Polaroid Cube.

Polaroid’s parent company today filed a patent infringement suit against GoPro claiming GoPro’s new cube shaped hero four session is a copy of the Polaroid cube.

Polaroid’s parent company that holds exclusive rights to Polaroid’s instant and action product categories filed a patent-infringement lawsuit on Tuesday against the digital-camera maker over its Hero4 session model. C&A Marketing wants a court to award it all of GoPro's revenues from the camera, as well as lawyer fees. The two cameras look almost identical. Both are shaped like a cube with rounded edges, and even though the Session is able to shoot better quality video and is slightly larger than the 1.4-cubic-inch Cube, C&A is insisting that GoPro has infringed on the design patent that it received in May this year, preventing any other camera from copying the Cube's unique look. GoPro had filed a patent related to its square camera's design in March, but that specifically covered the camera's housing. .

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[Steve Grisetti]

I remember when $500 wouldn't even buy you a camcorder -- and those were 1990 dollars!

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Just try looking up your "cool" expensive camcorder and see what the going rate is on e-bay... UGGGHHHH.

I was surprised to see that my Sony HC1 is still going for approx. $500 on e-bay. That seemed odd not sure why.

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