By that reasoning, you might say there's no such thing as bad art. In most cases, things are designed with the best of intentions and may or may not be successful for their audience.
But a standalone ILC is already a small addressable market so the choices do matter, especially for a company of Sigma's size.
Whether or not the choices are good ones depends on what factors matter to you. Even then, not all choices made are the best ones to achieve the ends of the designers and users, but in a product like this, they were made.
One way art can be bad is by refusing (or being unable to) make choices. Whether that's from lack of perception, skill, or interest. Of course you can subvert this by refusing to make choices, but that in itself is its own choice - it has intent.
I think the HN crowd often make an assumption that they have all the information necessary to judge something. It doesn't have an SD card slot! Is it possible that Sigma saw how their customers use these cameras and figured that they could significantly simplify the enclosure design and packaging by omitting an SD card facility? I don't know! But I think that this is interesting, and makes me think of the 20-somethings I see toting MLCs in the city, for whom I get the sense that a camera is a lifestyle component, not a professional one. Maybe they don't need to shoot >200GB a day? What's it like to have technology as a fashion statement? Being utility-minded engineer, what am I missing about people's relationships to objects?
So much love and respect for VLC as robust pioneering open source software, but also in 2024, it feels like extremely antiquated and sluggish on a Mac.
While a chargeback is effectively the right move, most large companies have extremely heavy handed responses to it even if it's to correct their error you've made good faith effort to resolve.
As I think someone else mentioned, that would be a no brainer if you had no expectation of every doing business with them again but I wouldn't do that in this case.
I saw a story on Reddit (posted it here as well) where someone did a chargeback for Google Ads and their Gmail got permabanned.
Chargebacks are not as powerful as you think. Do enough and you won’t win anymore regardless of how right you are. Uber, Amazon, Google, etc will straight up ban people who do chargebacks with no recourse.
Sorry to make you have such doubts.
We don't have a product interface because we are still in the process of development, of course, if you would like to know more, I can send you the design drawings of the product individually. I've already had many users contact me and look at the design of the product individually, and they all think it's a very good product!
The purpose of publicizing the product in advance is also because we are an independent developer, we can receive more feedback from users during the development process, which helps us to make a better product!
How will you make a business out of this or support its ongoing development?
Strava has a fairly robust free product and the nominal monthly cost for their premium service seems worth it to those more serious and want the extras. I guess I'm not seeing what you're addressing?
I worked for a company who did this many years ago.
Create new formula for performance. Hire respected thought leaders. Convert users to your way of measuring new performance.
Use the fact that the big guys don't use this measurement as your ad copy. If they add support for it that will generate a certain status for you which can make your brand.
