Mike-the-cat
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Not true. While the Inspire is basically unchallenged presently, and is a prosumer system, clearly most of the market is on the entry end. The success of the Phantom series is what is driving profitability of the company as well as giving it bragging rights. Mavics has got all the technology of the P4 in a smaller form factor and that speaks to engineering finesse. In case you don't already know, the P4 radio system is superior to that of the Inspire's in terms of reliability and distance and with Mavics, DJI has upped that claim further. This is to say nothing of collision avoidance and all the fancy follow me features.
In seeking to retain its ace status in the consumer market, DJI has diverted tremendous engineering resources to P4 and Mavics. They took what they learnt from the Inspire and Matrix 100 and miniaturised it. This surely is remarkable.
The desire to wipe GoPro has a personal edge as well. GoPro snubbed DJI when DJI wanted a preferential deal for camera tech when the P1/P2 were in play. This nudged DJI to develop its own camera tech culminating in the X5R. American media bragging about GoPro's Karma is as much about national pride as it is about business. Think Apple vs. Samsung. Except in this case, DJI beats GoPro in every department and more. They have even gone $749 vs. $799, anticipating how the low end marketeer and consumer think.
How is this relevant to the Inspire community? Given the prowess DJI has, all of Mavics features and some of the Matrice 600's and more could go into the Inspire 2 in a blink. The X5R could get a new sensor and operate in REC 2020 color space, fulling using up that 10 bit color capability it has. They could further optimise power weight ratio to gain more flight time with the same battery packs. But for now, that isn't going to happen as the eye is on total dominance at the consumer level. |
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