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Yet a lot of those businesses lean on the work of prusa.
Friend of mine always used creality their shitty slicer clone for his ender 3 v2, then got a bambu and was amazed by all the settings and options, different supports etc etc.
Told him he should have switched to prusaslicer ages ago, which bambu's slicer is based on and the sole reason its open source.
(Also, orca slicer > bambu studio)
Prusa has been fighting the enshitification of 3d printing so badly, they are going under while other companies are standing on their shoulders and pushing them under ><
Yes, a lot of the groundwork was done by prusa, and yes a lot of companies are standing on their shoulders. Prusa 100% deserves a lot of credit for enabling what 3D printing has become today, no doubt about that...but they haven't really been innovative or at the front of 3D printing for a while, they stagnated and have been overtaken as a consequence.
Edit: most of the cheap Chinese manufacturers are ahead because they lean massively in to klipper and rely on the community there.
Prusa has innovated. Not on their printers, agreed there, but in the slicer they have. And imo, those brands that are standing on prusa's shoulders should pay them for that work but afaik, and do correct me if im wrong, they dont. Bambu does nothing back for prusa, the opposite even. They are killing the shoulders they are standing on and barely do something for communities. Creality was also that bad until they were forced to by a chinese maker that is now at large.
Then other companies came and took creality's crown by using the opened designs.
I joined the 3d printing scene at the wrong time as i saw giants like prusa slowly fall and be replaced with shit heads like bambu
My point is that any innovation by prusa, slicer or printer, is pretty much past tense.
Granted it's from a partnership, but the INDX extruder seems to be on the cusp, so the idea that Prusa is behind seems odd. And the fact that they're more open and consumer friendly than Bambu is great. There are a lot of affordable printers that have benefited from Prusa's development while Prusa is still dropping new developments, seemingly at a greater rate now than previously.
INDX is done by a completely different company, you cannot credit their work to prusa at all.
And im saying its not, because their changes still flow upwards towards the bambu slicer and the popular fork of fork, orca slicer, which are both based on prusaslicer and still integrate changes of prusaslicer.