Yeah that’s fair, it couldn’t even connect to my work network because it doesn’t support WPA2-Enterprise. It seems like they’re really going for the “prosumer” market, not enterprise with this one. I expect to see the H2E soon for a couple of grand more for places like that.
EDIT 1: I expect the core market to be makers and hobbyists who have been wanting to upgrade and want something they can dump a big chunk of money into and not worry about getting a new printer for a while. That’s my plan at least. I have an excel spreadsheet for my finances and I’ve made a whole loan amortization table to plan the purchase. This is, to me, equivalent to upgrading my computer every 5-6 years or so, except I shouldn’t see the degradation in performance you see when playing new games on old hardware. It’ll be my workhorse for the next decade if I’m lucky. I don’t see this as something you buy 6 of for a print farm. Maybe you get one for special applications
EDIT 2: What I expect: Release the big one for a high cost, get the impulsive people and the big upgraders, then once that dies down release the next, cheaper model, get more impulsive people and people going “Oh wow it’s $1200 less than the H2D!”, wait a bit, then release the mass device (currently the A1/Mini) at a price others can’t really compete at with one or two new technologies to keep it fresh. Wait a couple years and then repeat the process