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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Damn, that’s promotional material that SanDisk would probably not want to have.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why? It wasn't there submersible, their product wasn't responsible for its destruction and frankly there is very little in the way of public sympathy.

The product is not even rated as waterproof and yet it's survived months at the bottom of the ocean after having survived a destructive implosion.

That's hella marketing.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The marketing is more for the submersible camera that survived, just like it was designed to do, the SD card was just inside the camera and no water even touched it. I don't think the SD card should be getting any credit.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I know but marketing is marketing. It doesn't really have to make any sense.

If the Xbox controller had survived I'm sure Microsoft would have made big of that even though it's basically irrelevant to the product.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

They didn't even use an Xbox controller, they cheaped out and used an ancient Logitech clone

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why not? If anything, it shows how durable their product is. If it were my company, I would market the shit out of this.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

It shows how durable their product is… when stored in an enclosure designed to protect it. The SD card probably didn’t even experience an increase in air pressure.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Nah, more like great promo material for the camera that survived the whole mess mostly intact.

Too bad they dropped the ball by not having the decryption keys for the actual video on the card.

Edit: Apparently they've recover the files.

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

New form of key compression unlocked!

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

sd is so sturdy it can withstand pressures of depts at 12000ft.