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SkinJob2501 Posted at 2018-9-21 05:58
I dont advocate any kind of plagiarism, but the Chinese companies have been stealing US technology, and getting away with it, for decades. All we need is one strong, well funded american company to bring DJI tech to the States.....and improve on it vastly. Its possible, just requires $$$x10^23....which is hard to come by here since people work for a wage. Hopefully, someone smart and well funded comes to bat in the near future here in the USA. I have no problem buying a Chinese product, many of them are excellent, plenty of them suck to the max. Stateside features, technology and support would help drive the market in a positive direction. Creating actual competition instead of a monopoly, driving costs for new and exciting features down and bringing amazing products to market....for everyone....What we currently have is an expensive product (with a fairly wealthy fanboy base, mostly because our choices are limited for such an expensive past time / employment avenue).
I hope that Autel can rise to the occasion, hopefully this stumbling block is a forced step in the right direction for them and they rise to the occasion, make a cool drone that more can afford that can have a good (if not better) track record than DJI (which is a very high bar to set) and bring UAS tech to the masses and not just the wealthy etc.
I personally think the cost of DJI's products (except the M2P) is pretty reasonable for the tech package, from the Spark to Mavic 1 to the Ronin-S. I think that's why it's so hard for North American companies to compete, because they'd be losing money at the price points DJI is selling them at. I do feel that the M2P shouldn't be priced like the P4Pro but it seems that they don't want to replace the first Mavic and instead complement it at higher tiers.
Also, DJI started in 2006 and have been making drones earlier than other companies. I'm not sure about the plagiarism you've mentioned.
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