gedgar2016
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Flight distance : 1700968 ft
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It does seem like they are penny pinching, and it does seem a bit counter productive, although I'd like to see a breakout of the actual costs. $99 for the HDMI conversion minus the current module = the money they save by not including the HDMI. I bet it might be surprising at how little the delta price (or profit if they didn't increase the price) would be. 100W charger down to 57W for the Advanced?! LOL
But they might have wanted to get under $1,000, with the same profit margin, and picking up a few dollars on the cheaper charger did it. There is also the perception that the P3 is a much cheaper nearly as good as the Inspire, but with the retractable gear, far superior camera, and more power, HDMI out vs not is not really an advertising factor.
I think it's DJI milking the profit margin to what they want it to be, and not compromising, even if doing so wouldn't really impact it that much.
I could rag forever about the spare parts issue. They have a brilliantly designed, modular design, and a monkey could swap out some of the assemblies inside. Shipping it to China, or some place in the US, who outsources the work to people with grease on their hands (a friend's horror story), to perform a fix that I would be as capable of as the tech that did it, bites the big one.
I knocked off my camera and gimbal, in a way too dumb to say here, and I DO see that I can buy a new camera/gimbal assembly. But I did not hurt the card reader, and I haven't seen a camera/gimbal assembly without the card reader.
Are they trying to make repairs a profit center, or are they after CONTROL? I HATE they veiled threats about data from your machine being automatically uploaded to DJI's servers, without your user information, but they turn around and say they can match it anyway, and will turn it over to law enforcement if necessary. Do they not want people monkeying around in their hardware for any other reason than to make money off repairs?
DJI's BIGGEST FEAR: A Drone backlash, and a DJI product causing a disaster, and an import ban. Or any disaster causing a huge falloff in the demand for their product. So instead of the normal Chinese attitude of, "Screw you if you don't like us counterfeiting all your products", they will go AS FAR AS THEY CAN to suck up to the FAA, SO LONG AS IT DOESN'T PISS THE CONSUMER OFF TOO MUCH, so they can keep in the USA's "official" good graces. Man, Wicked Laser won't import their product into the US anymore. I think they should leave Taiwan the hell alone, and resume shipping Wicked Laser's. Maybe quit counterfeiting Rolex watches, and Apple's stuff. China is trying to go legit!! Like the Corleone family! |
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