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Synology's telegraphed moves toward a contained ecosystem and seemingly vertical integration are certain to rankle some of its biggest fans, who likely enjoy doing their own system building, shopping, and assembly for the perfect amount of storage. "Pro-sumers," homelab enthusiasts, and those with just a lot of stuff to store at home, or in a small business, previously had a good reason to buy one Synology device every so many years, then stick into them whatever drives they happened to have or acquired at their desired prices. Synology's stated needs for efficient support of drive arrays may be more defensible at the enterprise level, but as it gets closer to the home level, it suggests a different kind of optimization.

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It’s like they don’t understand their demographic.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think their CEO might have QNAP stock or something.

It's hilarious how dumb this is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Hilarious and pathetic.

Like Brexit.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They absolutely do. But it's a symptom of capitalism. They must seek higher and higher profits each year. And this is one of their ideas to seek higher profits....

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Growth imperative. Greed will never be satiated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

The worst is that it will probably increase profit or a quarter or too while running the brand to the ground.