If I was trying to create a gift for my grandmother and couldn't, I'd still be ticked off. Business or no business, having a piece of equipment unnessesarily tied to the cloud is looking for trouble.
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There are a lot of people that are counting on running a business with the GF. People who do not have a clue, but they have ideas and have bought (literally) into the hype. Those are the ones like the veteran I ran into on another Forum who could not be swayed from his belief in the sales pitch.
Dave, you're a brilliant guy. I saw Steve's compliments on another thread, and wholeheartedly agree. You sometimes operate on a different wavelength from the average user, though. No one is making sealing rings on a GF, and all of their marketing focuses on the machine in the home environment (kitchen, den, children, etc.) As you will recall, this caused a lot of SMC heartache.
Being down for any amount of time is not acceptable. Being that their was no reason to make it a cloud based machine. They should have made it so it cn be used anytime, not dependent on the net. yes Matt we all have had down tome do to machine problem's, but we don't need added down time do to the mfg'r ignorant decision to make it cloud based
what happens when you have an expensive item in it when it goes down.
It might come back up and only have a glitch. You like Glitches in your engraving don't you? They are Odd and sometimes a frustrating thing kind of like having tribbles.
Might happen at any time, never can tell. I DO know if my Chinese loses power, it will try and start off where it left off. If I don't move anything, it has been pretty accurate.
My Triumph has a 'power off restart' too. I can uplug it, turn it off, stop it any way I know how, and it'll pick up where it left off on re-start. If other eastern machines are like mine, when you turn the power off, the power doesn't actually cut off for like 3 seconds. I assume this a form of temporary UPS and the controller uses those 3 seconds to store last known coordinates. All I know is, it works, and I would assume the GF will do this also...
It's the one thing my western machines DON'T do, and I wish they would!
RD and AWC do Kev but Leetro don't on anything under the 6585, the RD and AWC run in retro, the moves are sent to a holding buffer before being executed on a read ahead system (a bit like full size CNC's like the Hardinge and Mori Seiki's) so they know the next move and have it allocated before execution.
It's the one big problem with older leetro's not having it :(
This is what I get annoyed about...a decent person with dreams that will very likely end up crushed....Quote:
I was so excited last night when I got my "golden email" as we all have named it! I am beyond excited. Leaving the Corporate world after 18 years... Glowforge you are a part of my next chapter
Devil's advocate: Why get annoyed at GF?
I'm not sure why they are doing this, but it looks like the machines are build-to-order after they email confirm a previous confirmation (pre-order). I wish GF would be more transparent about their shipping process.
I've seen it posted that most are receiving units 2-4 weeks after shipping email.
Matt - Devil's advocate: Why get annoyed at GF?
False and misleading advertising, pretty much evident if your reading the Thread.