A company like GoPro could easily take some of that knowledge available out there and put it to good use in their next product. As we said above, it’s hard to predict where the market as a whole will go next and what’s going to become popular in the future, but a company could at least make a good bet by listening to their consumers and paying attention to any developing trends in online discussions.
Other players on the market have already adopted this strategy quite efficiently in the past, and we’ve seen some very strong progress in some parts of the market exactly because of companies that know how to follow the opinions of their customers.
We don’t know if the company will additionally make any other changes to their line-up later on, and it’s possible that we could even see them doing away with design elements that have traditionally made the GoPro a fan favorite. Sometimes the long-term plans of companies like these can be strange when we can only see the tip of the iceberg.
But if that’s done in favor of something that pushes the line forward and results in actual progress for the action camera market as a whole, then of course it should be a welcomed change. The only worrying possibility, according to some, is that GoPro might decide to compress their line-up too much, giving their users too little choice and therefore driving themselves even lower in the popularity ranks on the market.