Clapper
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[size=14.6667px]I realize DJI is a Chinese company, for better and worse. Here is some market feedback from the USA. The Chinese are used to heavy handed government and social controls. Going along with such thinking is a must for anyone who wants to succeed in business in China. The Chinese don't spend a lot of time worrying about losing freedoms, because they don't have as many in their country and the ones they do have are new and not shared by everyone. But now DJI has a huge consumer base in the USA, and they need to realize that many people in this country are reflexively questioning and uncomfortable with "Big Brother" moves like unilaterally "updating" firmware to restrict our uses in a creeping, unilateral way. I am sure they have many rational motives for continuing this trend, such as trying to prevent wider government regulation that might hurt their sales in places like the USA. But hear this DJI - the USA is a country where freedom is valued, and "Big Brother" is not wanted by many of us even if there is some "good" in it. We see what you're doing, and we don't like it. Keep it up and somebody will get sick of it enough to come up with an alternative to your products that is more in line with our values. Right now you have little to fear because your tech is far ahead and your market share is immense. That is what GM thought in the the 60's and look what happened to them. They're still huge, but their arrogance gave birth to a multitude or competitors who are now much bigger and eat much of their lunch by making better products and selling them for less money. The US market is the biggest and it will win in the end, and this market is not controlled like the Chinese market. DJI, you should be continuing to innovate and find new ways to make your drones more capable and cheaper. Stop hobbling them with firmware and software updates that limit user freedoms more and more. Your once loyal US consumers like me will rebel and find ways to spend our money elsewhere with companies that don't feel compelled to treat us like children even if some of us may sometimes act irresponsibly. Even if your hobbling our drones seems beneficial to DJI and many other people, it is not the "American" way and it is a losing strategy. Please stop it.
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