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It killed them. They went from THE camera for active life. They were synonymous with Hoovers in their field.
Then they got eaten alive because all they did was bullshit instead of making better cameras. Good riddance.
I have the Hero 11 Black and their new "4k" mini one (both gifted). The mini is pretty much unusable for two reasons:
Their built-in battery likes to die just from being "off" for a little while. Even though pretty much every GoPro seems to have a bad problem with phantom battery drain, you can't replace this one, so you're losing charge cycles without actually using the camera.
You simply cannot use the videos out of the camera without running it through an image stabilization process (through their app, or using third-party software like Gyroflow (thank god, this is FOSS). It's embarrassing that they'd even sell a camera without image stabilization. I have a $60 no-name gopro knockoff that produces better footage out of the camera.
If someone paid me to design a flawed product, I'd basically make a GoPro camera. Such a shame!
Curious here . Would the phantom battery drain mean even when it is off it is " doing something " ?
I wish I knew! On my Hero 11, I can sometimes hear it turning on by itself... Days after the last use.
Other times, I refises to then off. If you force it off, it turns right back on!
But at least you can remove the battery on that one. The mini one has no option for that.
Wow , that's creepy 😳