Dan the Beginner
Premium Member
1. Why release ten 3x3 cubes within 6 month, with many overlapping features? There has to be a cost to do this. Looking at their prices, the better cubes certainly have noticeably higher prices than previous products. Performance improvement has been reported but it seems, based on the numerous reviews, not really so exciting or cheap, e.g. when compared to other recent cubes from others, e.g Tornado V3 models.
2. Where is the innovation? Apart from ball core, which seems not much more than core magnets IMO, and the use of a rounder centre cap and centre piece design (both of which were designed and used for years by others), I was unable to see any really new feature. While new to Moyu, it seems most of the latest "new" features are copied from others. Besides those mentioned, UV, auto-homing, are not exactly new either. In fact, it manages to lose corner magnet adjustment, which was there in the WRM 2021 and WRM Maglev 2021.
3. Where is the update of the Moyu Weilong AI Cube, which is already 2 years old? It was a very nice speed cube, well ahead of the others at the time, except in the software. I bought three already and have continued to use it, including one with its pieces swapped with the WRM 2021 to get magnet adjustment, because there were reliability problems, both in its flimsy charger and in the cube itself. Still, it is a really nice cube when working (using Cubeast), and all it takes is some more QA and updates to make it the top smartcube again, e.g. core magnet or ball core. It seems a simple and worthwhile thing to do, IMO, after all the work in releasing ten other cubes.
I still remember after the WRM 2021 was released (with a lower price than the WRM 2020 but added magnet adjustment), this nice AI Cube and then later the WRM Maglev were also released. They all had clearly different targets and selling points, and good products for their prices. I had thought that this company was really moving and going places. I can understand that Covid has made it tough for business, drained resources and delayed products, but with such constraints it would seem a better strategy to make fewer but more distinguished products. Your thoughts?
2. Where is the innovation? Apart from ball core, which seems not much more than core magnets IMO, and the use of a rounder centre cap and centre piece design (both of which were designed and used for years by others), I was unable to see any really new feature. While new to Moyu, it seems most of the latest "new" features are copied from others. Besides those mentioned, UV, auto-homing, are not exactly new either. In fact, it manages to lose corner magnet adjustment, which was there in the WRM 2021 and WRM Maglev 2021.
3. Where is the update of the Moyu Weilong AI Cube, which is already 2 years old? It was a very nice speed cube, well ahead of the others at the time, except in the software. I bought three already and have continued to use it, including one with its pieces swapped with the WRM 2021 to get magnet adjustment, because there were reliability problems, both in its flimsy charger and in the cube itself. Still, it is a really nice cube when working (using Cubeast), and all it takes is some more QA and updates to make it the top smartcube again, e.g. core magnet or ball core. It seems a simple and worthwhile thing to do, IMO, after all the work in releasing ten other cubes.
I still remember after the WRM 2021 was released (with a lower price than the WRM 2020 but added magnet adjustment), this nice AI Cube and then later the WRM Maglev were also released. They all had clearly different targets and selling points, and good products for their prices. I had thought that this company was really moving and going places. I can understand that Covid has made it tough for business, drained resources and delayed products, but with such constraints it would seem a better strategy to make fewer but more distinguished products. Your thoughts?
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