They did feel the need to respond - so perhaps someone in there feels their maket share threatened.
But overall, what number of future printers and other recurring revenue do they expect to sell to production workshops, corporate, or low-tech users or other users which might take what they are sold "no matter what"? This is not a new problem. Do you / do we know the distribution of customers between the more advanced customers that may care and switch and the ones that won't even hear of the thing.
See also, printers, PDF or photo editing software, operating systems, all the way to mainframes. Realistically, advanced fans are rarely a significant share of the profits. And that's a problem of course. And for some companies it absolutely does come back and hurt them (IBM's competition did in the end succeed, and linux runs on most servers.)
If anything, for 3D printers, the competition is already here - much easier for the people who care.
But overall, what number of future printers and other recurring revenue do they expect to sell to production workshops, corporate, or low-tech users or other users which might take what they are sold "no matter what"? This is not a new problem. Do you / do we know the distribution of customers between the more advanced customers that may care and switch and the ones that won't even hear of the thing.
See also, printers, PDF or photo editing software, operating systems, all the way to mainframes. Realistically, advanced fans are rarely a significant share of the profits. And that's a problem of course. And for some companies it absolutely does come back and hurt them (IBM's competition did in the end succeed, and linux runs on most servers.)
If anything, for 3D printers, the competition is already here - much easier for the people who care.