Hey, they tried! I give them credit, and I hoped they would have made it and remained in the consumer business. I liked what I saw and even tried to support them pre-solo with their pixhawk and other hardware purchased from them.
The only thing that bothers me (being one that was one of the first with a Solo) was that right along, and still now, we complain about the poor GPS performance, and those 'in the know' and 3DR people still try to defend it and say it's fine and works. Even though they designed a Rev B to fix some of its issues, and then a shield to try to make it better, but dropped the rev B that fixes some battery and other issues.
Instead we NOW learn they knew of the issues right from the beginning, from the Forbes article are some quotes from a "person that worked for the 3D Robotics' marketing team", commenting on their practices when demoing the Solo to the press: (emphasis is mine)
"We new the drone would work", he said, noting that there was an improved GPS component that wasn't shipped in the regular Solos.
Yes, they knew all along that the production GPS was sub-par, yet everyone keeps trying to tell us, that "you pilots are flying in bad locations" the Solo GPS works perfectly!
LOL
Well, we know now the truth and the symptoms have proven this right from the beginning.
But I still like where they were heading and wish they were successful. Now I just hope I can keep the Solo flying over time as it cost me a lot of $$$, so I hope an aftermarket springs up to help support us with parts at least, and if we're lucky, we'll have some open software, firmware, etc.