Worst tech ever

[RichWest]

There is a HUGE difference between something that is simply manufactured in China, and Chinese company.

For example, 3DR is an American company with an American CEO and mostly American employees. It was designed in America at their American headquarter. The actual manufacturing labor was outsourced to a manufacturer in China. That manufacturer built the Solo to 3DR's standards and specifications. There is quality control and supervision. There products used in manufacture are not knockoffs are hacked stolen intellectual property.

DJI is a Chinese owned and operated company. Everything they do is in the best interest of the communist government of China. And they do not have the same standards, rules, and ethics that an American company has. As with anything else, the goal in China is superiority. That's just how China works.

Here, here!

 

[DJMc]

Can I put in a bid claiming half of Chris Anderson for Britain. After all we do have a long history of inventing really good stuff and then letting other people commercialise it.....I'm thinking the jet engine, computers, WWW ....you know, the little things [emoji3]

Thinking about it....worst tech ever....the Sinclair C5 must be in there somewhere...not our finest hour.

 

[Lon Denard]

Here, here!

Well there's a great endorsement for the Go Pro Karma!

 

[Badzilla]

There is a HUGE difference between something that is simply manufactured in China, and Chinese company.

For example, 3DR is an American company with an American CEO and mostly American employees. It was designed in America at their American headquarter. The actual manufacturing labor was outsourced to a manufacturer in China. That manufacturer built the Solo to 3DR's standards and specifications. There is quality control and supervision. There products used in manufacture are not knockoffs are hacked stolen intellectual property.

DJI is a Chinese owned and operated company. Everything they do is in the best interest of the communist government of China. And they do not have the same standards, rules, and ethics that an American company has. As with anything else, the goal in China is superiority. That's just how China works.

It is worse than that. It is bad enough for Western companies to outsource the majority of manufacturing jobs to China. But companies being Chinese owned is an additional level of corruption. Because, naturally, China is going to favor its own companies' manufacturing over other companies' manufacturing. It stinks, badly. The NO-FLY ZONE restriction should make that stink obvious to Westerners.

 

[xman4242]

I have heard that DJI shares all of its data with the Chinese government. Why make surveillance drones when you can have a company's products do it for you?

 

[Pedals2Paddles]

DJI's no fly zone and firmware lock downs are self-serving. Make no mistake, they aren't doing it for safety and they aren't doing it be nannies. Remember, Chinese owned companies are all about superiority and profit. By putting all these lockdowns and lockouts on their products, it makes them favored by other governments an rule-obsessed agencies. It also gives them hours and pages of free press.

 

[Pedals2Paddles]

I have heard that DJI shares all of its data with the Chinese government. Why make surveillance drones when you can have a company's products do it for you?

You can assume that any information you give to a Chinese owned company is given to the Chinese government. It is used for marketing, intelligence, espionage, etc.

 

[DJMc]

DJI's no fly zone and firmware lock downs are self-serving. Make no mistake, they aren't doing it for safety and they aren't doing it be nannies. Remember, Chinese owned companies are all about superiority and profit. By putting all these lockdowns and lockouts on their products, it makes them favored by other governments an rule-obsessed agencies. It also gives them hours and pages of free press.

Unfortunately you are spot on, as ever.

DJI already the voice of the industry from the usually impeccable BBC.

UK to bring in drone registration - BBC News

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40684581

Ironic, given they are always playing catch-up with open source.

Although I don't think you can legislate for people doing this...

'My fingers were almost cut off by a drone' - 'My fingers were almost cut off by a drone' - BBC News

I think the headline puts a slightly unfair amount of blame on the drone...

 

[xman4242]

Some people in america

 

[Lon Denard]

I have heard that DJI shares all of its data with the Chinese government. Why make surveillance drones when you can have a company's products do it for you?

Yea and they're putting cameras in all the appliances to spy on us! Not to mention that they make ALL of the phones, computers, tablets, etc. I'm surprised some of you guys are on the internet at all. Drones? Why use a toy to surveil us when you're walking around with a camera and microphone 24/7? Hahaha! I don't think the Chinese are going to see anything from my drone that they can't see from the billions of dollars worth of satellites they have in orbit. Geez...

 

[Lon Denard]

I have read much stuff including on DJI forums. You have to jump through hoops to disable NO-FLY ZONES. A warning, with a settings option to disable warnings, is plenty in any free country. The NO-FLY ZONE garbage exists, unadvertised, on Yuneec drones as well. Both companies (DJI and Yuneec) are headquartered in Communist China.

As far as having to move on goes, I hear you. And since everything is made in China, of course China controls which products fail and which products succeed. If necessary, you just grin and bear it.

What do you dislike about the Karma?

Just a note, so far the Mavic hasn't made any attempt to restrict my flights either in altitude or location. Of course, I'm not trying to fly by any major airports or whatever. I'm going to be by one later so I might fire it up and see what it says.

 

[Belohegor]

After reading this thread I'm appalled by some of the haughtiness and insensitivity. After making a drone purchase one should not need to bee tech savvy to get the thing to do what it was supposed to do. Further, I agree that 3DR's customer service sucks big time. My done has been "calibrating sensors" for 5 weeks while 3DR decides what to do after a review of the logs identified a sensor failure.

Consider too the lack of support as 3DR has opts out of the "consumer" market with no further sofware or hardware development for us consumers. Thankfully, in the past weeks, most the software has been opened up so hopefully third party developers can continue.

Naa. I dunno,that this man is an idiot but can empathize with his frustration.