Thats why i said opinion, same as that is YOURS.
Tiny price? come on. its essentially the same price, +- a couple hundred bucks isnt a big deal.
1. I did miss the lightbridge piece. thats a nice thing, certainly... very good.
2. dedicated area camera? I and others dont want dedicated. I want modular. I want to take my go pro fishing and hunting, and biking, AND use it on a quad. Not be locked in to 1 camera that a year from now i cant change. Thats not bashing DJI thats just fact.
3. Pedestrian? come on, thats just being a homer. There are nice new things about the P3, and there are nice new things that the solo will do. Claiming the solo is pedestrian is just a weak argument and makes you look untrustworthy (thats not a slam, its just how people feel when others bash an idea that is clearly false)
4. Crummy go pro camera ? come on, thats another silly statement that doesnt help your case. Whether you think the new camera is better than a go pro or the other way around, fact is they are both very good cameras and to say one is crummy, thats just ridiculous.
5. 3drs offering is old before its released? With an open source platform, that notion doesnt exist. If DJI was open source, the p2 would be even better, 10x better because an inspired (no pun intended) community of developers would be creating amazing things to only enhance the platform. 1 year from now the P3 will be replaced by the P4 with a fancier BUILT IN camera and some new features. You will have to shell out 1k + again to have it. Where as the solo will have a community (hopefully) behind it making amazing mods and software packages, and I can replace my go pro 4 with a 5 and leapfrog the P3 for a few hundred. It is a lot of apples and oranges in here.
All DJI would have to do to fend off any and all competition is to do a few things better. as stated before the "Crummy, and pedestrian" and other unhelpful adjectives started getting thrown around, was that there are pros and cons to both. As a leader in the industry you open yourself to un - needed competition if you dont address your CONS.
1. Open it up. Let develops play with your code (if its an upsupported firmware it voids the warranty, there you are free of liability).
2. Dont lock in hardware - dont make people spend $700 (or whatever it is/was) to replace the entire gimbal camera assembly.
3. Support - implement the auto support feature of collecting logs (not on the bird) and be able to parse those logs to accurately determine what happened. Dont deny the issue of fly aways, because its un deniable. Admit it, own it, collect data on it, and make it better. Its not about being perfect , its about honesty and communication.
It doesnt take much. The follow me, orbit etc are nice features, but they arent what is swaying me one way or another, its the above points more than anything.
Maybe the solo will bomb and ill be back owning a p3. Maybe ill not get a solo at all after more thought. That was the point of this, and whether the points have been hashed 100 times or not, writing them out myself helps, and if it helps one other person think about it more, then its worth it.
You're sold on the P3, so of course you will defend your stance.
Tiny price? come on. its essentially the same price, +- a couple hundred bucks isnt a big deal.
1. I did miss the lightbridge piece. thats a nice thing, certainly... very good.
2. dedicated area camera? I and others dont want dedicated. I want modular. I want to take my go pro fishing and hunting, and biking, AND use it on a quad. Not be locked in to 1 camera that a year from now i cant change. Thats not bashing DJI thats just fact.
3. Pedestrian? come on, thats just being a homer. There are nice new things about the P3, and there are nice new things that the solo will do. Claiming the solo is pedestrian is just a weak argument and makes you look untrustworthy (thats not a slam, its just how people feel when others bash an idea that is clearly false)
4. Crummy go pro camera ? come on, thats another silly statement that doesnt help your case. Whether you think the new camera is better than a go pro or the other way around, fact is they are both very good cameras and to say one is crummy, thats just ridiculous.
5. 3drs offering is old before its released? With an open source platform, that notion doesnt exist. If DJI was open source, the p2 would be even better, 10x better because an inspired (no pun intended) community of developers would be creating amazing things to only enhance the platform. 1 year from now the P3 will be replaced by the P4 with a fancier BUILT IN camera and some new features. You will have to shell out 1k + again to have it. Where as the solo will have a community (hopefully) behind it making amazing mods and software packages, and I can replace my go pro 4 with a 5 and leapfrog the P3 for a few hundred. It is a lot of apples and oranges in here.
All DJI would have to do to fend off any and all competition is to do a few things better. as stated before the "Crummy, and pedestrian" and other unhelpful adjectives started getting thrown around, was that there are pros and cons to both. As a leader in the industry you open yourself to un - needed competition if you dont address your CONS.
1. Open it up. Let develops play with your code (if its an upsupported firmware it voids the warranty, there you are free of liability).
2. Dont lock in hardware - dont make people spend $700 (or whatever it is/was) to replace the entire gimbal camera assembly.
3. Support - implement the auto support feature of collecting logs (not on the bird) and be able to parse those logs to accurately determine what happened. Dont deny the issue of fly aways, because its un deniable. Admit it, own it, collect data on it, and make it better. Its not about being perfect , its about honesty and communication.
It doesnt take much. The follow me, orbit etc are nice features, but they arent what is swaying me one way or another, its the above points more than anything.
Maybe the solo will bomb and ill be back owning a p3. Maybe ill not get a solo at all after more thought. That was the point of this, and whether the points have been hashed 100 times or not, writing them out myself helps, and if it helps one other person think about it more, then its worth it.
You're sold on the P3, so of course you will defend your stance.
