• Donnywholovedbowling@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Copying my comment from another thread on the topic

    Probably because the software team is under a different cost center than the hardware/camera team, and they weren’t generating revenue. So the idiot assholes at the top of the SW side said “we can monetize our webcam software” and a bunch of people agreed so they could look relevant and keep their jobs. Capitalism!

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        5 hours ago

        But that’s not the point. Of course it costs money, but they’re not content providing it for free. A lot of hardware companies provide additional apps and functionality for free to enhance the hardware and make it better, but Canon chose to monetize it