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The Synology End Game

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452 points amacbride | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 06:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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codeflo ◴[29 Aug 25 08:13 UTC] No.45061494[source]▶
The year is 2025. Delivering a good product is not considered profitable enough anymore. If a company or product is beloved by customers then that means it doesn't squeeze them to the max. This is clearly money left on the table that someone will sooner or later extract. High-end brands are not exempt from this.
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snowwrestler ◴[29 Aug 25 11:59 UTC] No.45062889[source]▶
Is NAS a growth market at all anymore? My somewhat unexamined opinion is that most folks can and probably do just store everything in the cloud.

I would not be surprised to find out that Synology is seeing a smaller market year over year and becoming desperate to find new revenue per person who is shopping for a NAS today.

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1. Uvix ◴[29 Aug 25 12:36 UTC] No.45063284[source]▶
It’s not necessary a growth market, but you do get repeat customers (either as hardware ages or when we want to expand our storage).

I’m in the latter group but Synology has locked themselves out of the market with this choice.

Uploading terabytes of content to the consumer cloud just isn’t practical, financially.