"Axis partners are seeing Axis more as a competitor than a partner these days."
This I disagree..
For what is my personal experience, Axis is maybe one of the few ones remained in the market that really shows (and acts) to still believe to the integration with third parties. Only, of course pragmatically they go only with whom who they really feel able to give to their offer a solid value for selling more cameras.. Otherwise of course why they should care?..
In 2 weeks in Lund there will be the second ACAP (Axis Camera Application Platform) conference, where the best ACAP-ADP in the world are invited to a technical and commercial round-table for discussing together about the present and the future of the ACAP solutions.. Aren't you invited?..
Some months ago the main ACAP-ADP Partners had the opportunity to test and to give feedbacks to the latest beta version of the new firmware.. Well pretty different for example in respect of whom who has made the term "open platform" the manifesto of its marketing, but then in real practice their Partners know about the new releases of the SDK just by the commercial newsletters...........
ACC has grown and it is pushed more and more, but it's far to be Milestone or Genetec or Seetec or whatever else professional complete VMS. And probably it will never be and they are not that motivated in pushing that, until there are reliable expert ADPs working with them for this.
Their motion detection 2.0 has somehow improved, but it's far to be real video analysis. And probably it will never be and they are not that motivated in pushing that, until there are reliable expert ADPs working with them for this.
Also Samsung, Vivotek and some others are starting this way of approaching.
Coming back to the main topic of the post, my joke before asides, I actually do not see anything strange or "dirty" on what it was said... If I sell milk and a law states that all persons must drink 1 liter of milk per day, of course I happily praise it: it would be weird to expect the opposite.....
I don't think that also the other cameras vendors are desperately committing suicide for that....)) Maybe they don't apply a press release to exploit their happiness, but maybe just not yet.....))
Then of course we can discuss if this law can be good or not... But that's another topic..
Cheers,
Simone