To me, simple. Why would they release a product at half the cost of their flagship model and give it the same feature set?
But at the same time the
MA2, which is a big step up from the MM, uses that same half the cost device software. Perhaps because they want us to beta test the s*** out of it for them. This would make sense, it provides a 64 bit platform for rolling out fixes and functionality until they plateau and we're all swooning, or not. At that point it's
M3P launch time. It's what I'd do but I've only been a s/w guy and reluctant i/t manager and marketer for 30+ years
In other words, I surmise Dji are feeling under the gun to produce a native 64 bit app (i.e. not a converted legacy 32 bit app) with all the currently expected bells and whistles before they produce a new next tier drone with plenty of useable memory on board. We're the guinea pigs, and it works well enough on my MM so it doesn't worry me.
Smart move Dji. It's mostly about bedding-in the controller & device software, and integration thereof, with the a/c firmware and a couple of other external inputs/outputs I can think of. If the graph follows a straight line I predict, with some hesitation, the more sensor-endowed
M2P &
M2Z will be, hopefully optionally, next in line for installing Fly.
The folks that are suffering are used to Go 4. Fortunately for me, in this respect anyway, I've never used it. I have watched the youtubes so have a pretty good feel for what Fly is missing. Useful manual video exposure/speed control on the MM is no longer one of them. Dji released an upgrade and it tested-off real good here.
Here's another prediction. If I were on the Dji board I would be pushing for every product to be using the same a/c firmware, controller s/w, and device s/w. Access to functionality would be locked into what a/c you're registered to be flying. I say this as a s/w guy, it's pretty easy to do securely these days and reduces costs big time. The business model is changing. It's more about the software, available memory and security, and less about the copter.