It’s a sad day, was one of the first to jump on the WYZE ride and it was fun while it lasted. All good things must come to an end, Thank you WYZE but I can no longer depend on you to aid and assist in giving me non interrupted streaming on any of my devices. Don’t know what happened but it seems like after the merger things slowly started to decline. I wish you the very best!
What merger?
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It is possible the OP is referring to venture capital as a merger. Here is a good video on Wyze as a company if you have not seen it yet.
Yeah capital investment is common with any company. And I certainly have some negative opinions of what VC can do to a company. But it isn’t a merger by any stretch…
I certainly get the impression that there have been some major cost cuts at Wyze and that is almost certainly due to the VC investors demanding it. However OP is saying they’ve been there since the beginning, and if they think the original cams were significantly better than the recent (VC backed) ones, well I’d have to say I disagree there.
I guess you see it with any company that starts off small and does everything they can to satisfy users and get their name and product out there. Then when it comes time to start making money and take it to the next level, free things go away, prices go up, support gets outsourced, etc. It is frustrating, but it is also a reality with pretty much everything.
Had it been a true merger, it would have been far more interruptive and impacting, just ask anyone who had Blink before Amazon bought it, or Nest before Google, etc.
Heck I had a pre-FCA Dodge Ram and one after, and even there with both the truck itself and the service I’ve seen a huge difference. Mergers are almost never a good thing for the purchased company.
Another example I can think of is a local startup DNS company that I used from the very beginning and was grandfathered in as a founding member for “life”. That company was bought by Oracle years ago and all the services that I had paid for (one time lifetime fee) were eliminated and replaced with monthly and yearly subscriptions (with one month costing more than I had paid for life). I had easily gotten my moneys worth out of it, and nowadays you can get free DNS from Cloudflare and many others that is just as good if not better, so wasn’t an issue at that point. But it would have been frustrating if there wasn’t a good alternative.
Also, sometimes people will confuse a partnership as a merger too.
This is your first post. I smell a troll. There are many many people (like me) who have many Wyze products that perform as advertised. I have over 30 cameras, and have zero issues. The v1 scale, v1 doorbell, and vacuum also work as advertised.
Wyze gets blamed for things out of their control, such as a crappy router.
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