[pupdogg]

As someone who uses Ubiquiti NanoStation M2 APs very often as a part of wireless bridging solution for our own products, I was wondering what is happening with Ubiquiti. I have close colleague in Taiwan and he was so excited to inform me that he’s now working for Ubiquiti. I was sorta shocked because I thought Ubiquiti was a US based R&D team. When it first started, I remember watching the video of all the awesome engineers that left Cisco to start this new revolution. It’s sad to hear how the company is now being driven into the ground (merely for profits over innovation). I always thought that Ubiquiti would champion something in the 5G realm that would give US an edge over everyone else.

[tekproxy]

Innovation leads to profits, imho. "Short term profits" is the killer in most cases.

[pupdogg]

Yes of course, but there also comes a time at such companies that have experienced exponential growth (primarily attributed to innovation) that the innovation curve reaches a plateau and the focus shifts to brining in the next hot CEO to deliver profits and profits only by reducing overhead and increasing market share. At this point, any innovation and employee morale goes running out the door.