Here is what a user posted in the DJI MAVIC PRO OWNERS SECTION ON Facebook
"Upcoming UPDATE Explained: There is a surprising amount of panic about the upcoming update. Here is what it really means. Next time you update the DJI Go app, it will ask you to sign in into your DJI account on the app. You will have to do so only ONCE, NOT every time you fly.
Here is the reason behind it: When you buy the Mavic, you have to activate it. When you activate it, DJI stores a record of the serial number of the Mavic and associates it with your account on their servers. Under the old system you only had to activate it once. So, let’s say you buy a Mavic, activate it, fly for a while, and than sell it to someone else. It is still activated under your name, and if the next owner does something bad with it, and the authorities come to DJI and ask “who owns that drone,” DJI would give them your name.
Under the new system the drone is activated against the app at the time of the flight, and if there is a drone-app login mismatch, than you need data connection to reactivate it. The end result is, if your sell the Mavic, the next owner would have to activate it under their own name. That’s ALL.
The sky isn’t falling, and you can put down your pitchforks. The reason they warned you is because many people do a firmware update in the field, and this update will have to be done with a data connection available. But again, ONLY when you are updating the firmware or the app, NOT every time."
Keep in mind that as you stated "Here is what a user posted in the DJI MAVIC PRO OWNERS SECTION ON Facebook".
So that is one persons interpretation of what it all means!
I have dealt with Chinese companies for about 18 Years. I fully understand the way they operate when dealing with foreign countries and companies. So I can absolutely believe that they may indeed scale this back due to the backlash. I am in wait and see mode!
When the next week arrives I will see what happens. Then as the weeks and months pass we will all see if this goes further. Trust but Verify is a wise phrase to use when dealing with a Chinese company. I do not say that out of any kind of Racism, I actually like a lot of things about the people and their culture, but even a person from China will tell you that the powerful over their will dish out whatever they feel they can get away with and the people never do anything to stop them.
BTW here is a sad video that shows exactly what it is like in China. I actually experienced this myself when a mans wife was being chased by two men. Incredibly the family locked her out of the house when she could not run fast enough to make it to her front door. I started to approach them from across the street and they ran away.
When I came across this video a few weeks ago it bought back a lot of memories.
I am sorry that this is off topic.
Rob
Being an Chinese man myself, I concur what Rob speaks is the truth.
In China DJI is called "Big Jang"
It is an adjective like Google.
For example someone says they "Googled" something.
In Chinese when we say someone got had, we say they got " DJI'd "
Mavic is a fine piece of hardware, but the app and the firmware is like Skynet/terminator level of annoying.