I keep seeing great discussions on M3 or Air2S, or various Video or Photo technical techniques that go off tangent on satisfaction of DJI or their Products failing & loosing market share. Can't debate as more Drone manufactures enter or add product, the Drone market gains available options and competition. That's a Great End Result, it'll produce better products most likely at a lower price point.
But throwing out long debates within good technical or interesting threads, get the "Core" of the subject lost. Including myself, I might make a side-comment that may result in many more reactions and the end result, we're reading multiple Posts looking for the "Return" to the Subject post.
I'm throwing out my 2 Cents on the DJI Market discussion... in a thread for "DJI Market discussion".
My 2 Cents is my opinion... all debatable, Enjoy!
Overall DJI isn't loosing strength, they are expanding.
DJI market scope is getting more broad: Using their abilities to maintain existing markets and increase new markets.
Their Consumer Drone products are a big seller in "unit volume"... much bang for the buck on smaller platforms & new limits reached on professional focused crafts: M3 Cine & new Inspire soon. Their Enterprise sales volume is much lower compared to Consumer, but hold the majority market share in all catagories they've entered. The cost of a M300 or M30 is substantial, very expensive batteries, not to mention the high cost M300 Payloads! Some of these batteries or payloads exceed the cost of many units of a smaller Consumer Drone: M2AS, M3 Cine, etc.
New venture market... introduced with DJI FPV, a cinematic FPV market, added to the new Digital FPV Flight Kit & Googles. Both ventures set new ground in a market that didn't exist until DJI introduced new products.
They have a growing market in Agriculture, the newer Argus T30 is impressive and becoming more functional for aerial patch spraying or specialized crops & vineyards. This has broadened to other specialities: Roof Treatment, Pesticide controls (parks, schools, etc), cleaning of tall mast electronics.
Other improved some Markets by creating essentially an RTF "all in One" Kit packages: The Phantom 4 RTK & Mobile Unit, extremely accurate mapping platform and the Agriculture targeted Phantom 4 Multispectral & RTK (optional) provide a specialized NDVI focus. Both of these products eliminated the need to acquire multiple assets from multiple manufactures and associated frustrations getting a stable acquiring platform. Both are pricey packages compared to Consumer drones, but provide a much lower cost than alternative solutions.
Expansion of Cinematography Market: The improvement of cinematic gimbal hardware. The new RS2 series and Ronin series, up to the market breaking technology of the Ronin 4D High End system that again integrates components previously requiring multiple manufactures. For aerial, the Ronin MX with M600Pro remains a popular platform... mounted with Red, Sony A7, Canon, etc.
Entering existing photography markets with the Osmo Pocket2, Action 2... both gaining ground and market share.
Adding to the YouTubers tool box, introducing their Dual Wireless Mic system adaptable to multiple Brands.
The majority of the new market ventures are providing huge profit and they're encroaching on older Brands easily with new technologies and integration.
It's not all about the Drones anymore, and the overall satisfaction in other markets is high. So I don't think 1 product that needs correction is presenting high concern, they realize problems need to be corrected but they also realize their products easily compete or exceed competition. They're developing multiple new products in multiple markets; addressing & correcting problems (correction or new model) probably better and rapid than competition.
All said... I'd like my M3 Cine corrected & enhanced, I'd like new FW & Payloads for my Inspire 2, M600Pro and Matrices. But I also realize their only competition comes at a much higher cost I'm not willing to invest.
But throwing out long debates within good technical or interesting threads, get the "Core" of the subject lost. Including myself, I might make a side-comment that may result in many more reactions and the end result, we're reading multiple Posts looking for the "Return" to the Subject post.
I'm throwing out my 2 Cents on the DJI Market discussion... in a thread for "DJI Market discussion".
My 2 Cents is my opinion... all debatable, Enjoy!
Overall DJI isn't loosing strength, they are expanding.
DJI market scope is getting more broad: Using their abilities to maintain existing markets and increase new markets.
Their Consumer Drone products are a big seller in "unit volume"... much bang for the buck on smaller platforms & new limits reached on professional focused crafts: M3 Cine & new Inspire soon. Their Enterprise sales volume is much lower compared to Consumer, but hold the majority market share in all catagories they've entered. The cost of a M300 or M30 is substantial, very expensive batteries, not to mention the high cost M300 Payloads! Some of these batteries or payloads exceed the cost of many units of a smaller Consumer Drone: M2AS, M3 Cine, etc.
New venture market... introduced with DJI FPV, a cinematic FPV market, added to the new Digital FPV Flight Kit & Googles. Both ventures set new ground in a market that didn't exist until DJI introduced new products.
They have a growing market in Agriculture, the newer Argus T30 is impressive and becoming more functional for aerial patch spraying or specialized crops & vineyards. This has broadened to other specialities: Roof Treatment, Pesticide controls (parks, schools, etc), cleaning of tall mast electronics.
Other improved some Markets by creating essentially an RTF "all in One" Kit packages: The Phantom 4 RTK & Mobile Unit, extremely accurate mapping platform and the Agriculture targeted Phantom 4 Multispectral & RTK (optional) provide a specialized NDVI focus. Both of these products eliminated the need to acquire multiple assets from multiple manufactures and associated frustrations getting a stable acquiring platform. Both are pricey packages compared to Consumer drones, but provide a much lower cost than alternative solutions.
Expansion of Cinematography Market: The improvement of cinematic gimbal hardware. The new RS2 series and Ronin series, up to the market breaking technology of the Ronin 4D High End system that again integrates components previously requiring multiple manufactures. For aerial, the Ronin MX with M600Pro remains a popular platform... mounted with Red, Sony A7, Canon, etc.
Entering existing photography markets with the Osmo Pocket2, Action 2... both gaining ground and market share.
Adding to the YouTubers tool box, introducing their Dual Wireless Mic system adaptable to multiple Brands.
The majority of the new market ventures are providing huge profit and they're encroaching on older Brands easily with new technologies and integration.
It's not all about the Drones anymore, and the overall satisfaction in other markets is high. So I don't think 1 product that needs correction is presenting high concern, they realize problems need to be corrected but they also realize their products easily compete or exceed competition. They're developing multiple new products in multiple markets; addressing & correcting problems (correction or new model) probably better and rapid than competition.
All said... I'd like my M3 Cine corrected & enhanced, I'd like new FW & Payloads for my Inspire 2, M600Pro and Matrices. But I also realize their only competition comes at a much higher cost I'm not willing to invest.
