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fansfe82067d Posted at 9-7 23:25
I have to wonder whether they are really clued up with audio related matters - the audio adapter seems to have problems which should have been fixed before marketing - while the problem we are discussing is audio and video, if they are not clued up on the need to avoid it because they see audio as not that important, then they may not have fixed it by now because they don't really see the importance of it. Guesswork of course. But hopefully the more we go on about it, the more likely it is that it will be addressed. Yup, I'm an optimist.
I don't think it's that they don't care about audio, I think it came down to the design brief and implementation. If all they wanted at the time was something to beat the leaders of action cams but with a unique twist building on their own expertise, then they fulfilled their own design brief. It's all they needed to ensure sales. I think as a manufacturer you don't want to get so far ahead of the competition that you can't then bring out another later planned product that is better than your last effort and possibly better than the product your competitor made to beat yours.
You can call me cynical but it's what you see time and again across the board with most electronic devices with cameras, in general, being a good example and a tricky one in which they have not just other camera manufacturers to contend with, but phone makers who can call upon better processing power and an amount of AI that gives an all in one package with the additional bonus of instant uploading to share on the internet. This is the YouTwitFace age where instant communication is king. DSLR manufacturers were slow to get that and lost out on compact and bridge camera sales big time and are only now trying to integrate cameras to phones to compete.
DJI at least have realised this and tried to get that part right from the off.
There are other considerations as well with the cost being a major one. You can have a product that is much better than your competitors but if it costs much more than theirs you will lose sales. Not possibly from the enthusiasts that are more clued up about performance differences but from the general public that realise they need something a bit more capable but not too expensive. But how do you make up for the loss of revenue due to competitive pricing? Yup. additional bolt-on products that only they can supply because nothing else will work as well. Or at all in some instances.
So yes, I'm very cynical but I also understand that what I'm buying into isn't just a product but a part of a commercial process that has to be viable and looked at from a commercial viewpoint. |
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