Farnk666
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In relative terms very few GoPro cameras ever find their way onto a UAV - it is a small part of their market, but one that is valuable for marketing purposes.
Having said that, I agree that DJI would be very smart to open up the physical and electronic interface for the X series cameras to third parties.
This would drive adoption of the Inspire/Inspire Pro and Matrice platforms, where DJI would make much more margin than selling cameras only.
A great example of this dates back to 1981 with the release of the IBM 5150, the first PC.
It was expensive, low powered (but amazing at the time) and didn't have much of a market at the time (sound familiar?).
But IBM opened up the ISA interface to 3rd party hardware devs who soon came up with a vast array of cards which meant that people could customise their PC to their specific use case.
Six or so months later, DEC launched the Rainbow 100 which completely blew the spec of the PC away - it could run multiple OSs, had colour display and Hard drive support as standard, all of which cost big $$ to add to the PC. DEC however kept the hardware interface proprietary and closed. I worked for DEC at this time as a hardware tech and never once saw a 3rd party card in a Rainbow. In face I never saw a Rainbow at a customer that wasn't already a VAX site. They had a great product, but kept it closed and it didn't catch on.
Had DEC opened up the hardware spec on the Rainbow, we might have had a different computing history over the past 30 or so years! |
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