neuroanatomist said:
Isurus said:
Wifi is ubiquitous this day and age. Kids toys have it, appliances have it, even my freaking front door lock has it and, yet, here we are with Canon asking us to pay 600 bucks for a damn dongle. What year is this?
Is that true everywhere Canon sells cameras?
Pretty much, yes. At the very least, in the vast majority of markets (if not all) they are targeting to 1D X II at. I find both the pricing and implementation of this laughable this day and age. I have a top of the line router (Netgear Nighthawk X6) that cost me half this price. My kids have toys that have built in wi-fi that cost less than a 10th of the price of this dongle. In this day and age, as a customer, my expectation is that this is built in out of the box at little additional incremental cost. Like I said, this functionality is almost literally ubiquitous across many markets. I get the product is geared towards pros but, as someone that use to do photography professionally and someone that still does a lot of photography, I have a hard time believing that pros wouldn't like to skip the dongle crap. My expectations are much higher than even getting rid of the dongle. At this stage, they should be innovating to just make wi-fi connections easier. Instead, he were are with same basic dongle we've had for several years.
I'm not sure whether to laugh or just be irritated. Probably both.