How GoPro lost the drone opportunity will always amaze me.
Especially given the potential military applications and contracts they could had signed.
Is there any serious competitor to DJI these days?
Especially given the potential military applications and contracts they could had signed.
Is there any serious competitor to DJI these days?
However, DJI had a lighter drone with more battery life and flight time and much better software and competed hard, getting to the point where 3DR left the consumer drone space entirely and abandoned the 3DR solo.
If you want to get into drones cheaply, you can usually get a 3DR solo for a few hundred bucks and install OpenSolo4 on it, which will make it work again.
DJI was already making a name for themselves in the camera industry with their gimbals. they moved their stabilization tech into drones (often to support gopro or third party camera attachments) and only realized later that they could easily cannibalize the camera makers