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Duane Degn Posted at 5-14 10:21
"No arms, motors, structural parts, replacement electronics, nothing. So demand for parts is definitely a lot lower than makes sense for them to offer and keep in stock."
I think this is evidence of the opposite. The demand is greater than the production.
As for the parts, I mean they're not even offered in their store. Not just listed but out of stock, but not available period. If they're not even available for sale, it's hard to say what the demand is. Though chances are it's too low for DJI to even list them. There are 3rd party sites out there that offer various parts, but I don't know if those aren't cloned poorer quality parts, or if the parts actually exist at all.
As for the FPV market, I think DJI had pretty high expectations. I think they really expected it to make a huge dent in the current DIY FPV drone market and maybe even cripple it. But it hardly dinged it at all, really. Developing their digital video system was no small task and it surely cost a lot of money and developer time. So my guess is the ROI they were expecting with FPV drone might not have actually materialized. OTOH, it may have totally blown away expectations . Only DJI knows, so I admit I'm only speculating.
Another more likely cause is that the problems in the first release aren't actually trivial or easy to fix. The problem with losing binding when switching from the drone to the FPV digital system, might be difficult for example. The goggles are completely rebooting and loading two entirely different firmwares when this is done. There could be a hardware constraint that makes it hard to store the bindings between reboots. Or something like that.
Even improving the tune on the drone. It comes down with the motors pretty warm already as is, after a flight. If they have to tighten up the tune even more by turning up some of the PIDs, they may be dealing with a hot-motor situation.
And so on. So it could be they just have a lot of work to do to fix what they want to fix, and it's just taking a long time. That's probably more plausible than they're already ditching the FPV drone, but I'm a healthy pessimist . So I usually assume worst-case to start with when it comes to DJI.... |
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