Originally Posted by
Matt McCoy
I think the topic was:
1) Nothing new to see here.
2) R&D is for nerds. They should just use off-the-shelf parts (contradicts number 1)
Ahhh Matt, good to see you still haven't lost your ability to see the glass totally full
No one said R&D is for nerds. R&D is great. If I were an investor, which I'm not, if you told me you'd spent "tens of millions" (meaning $20 million or more) on R&D and production improvements, what I'd expect to see at the end of that spending spree isn't this....
A laser that cuts itself off over 75 degrees, (never seen ANY machine do that before GF), requires files as small as 1MB in size be broken up into multiple files and stitched back together to make it work, doesn't engrave the full travel of the machine, runs slower than many Chinese machine on the market, or slower than Western machines were 2 decades ago (just from watching videos and reading actual user posts), and can take 20 minutes to process a single file prior to actually running the machine.
If that's what you think $20 million in investment should get you, remind me not to invest any money with you
In my opinion, $20 million in investments into R&D and production would get you a lot more than that. At least it would if it were my $20 million
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