And what might happen to the US drone market?
Adam W: And I just want to make one thing clear, though. I mean, it's not like this is just DJI that gets harmed. I mean, you know this, right? If if if you look at the harm to American businesses, this is the shocking thing, right? There's about 460,000 jobs that are supported through the use of DJI products across the United States. We are 70 plus percent of the market. You know, when they were interviewed, you know, small service providers said two-thirds of their membership would go out of business if they didn't have access to our products. I mean, this is a lot of collateral damage. Not to mention the police, firefighters, search and rescue teams that use our products to keep their their people safe or to find and and and help people in in distress. Yeah. The collateral damage, right?
Consumers in general who already have DJI products, originally, we didn't think, I think, when we first spoke about this, have much to worry about, at least about the things they already owned. But...
Adam W: That's still the case. I think. I think you're referring to the FCC recent decision from I think it was October 28th. Yeah. So, our read of that decision is that it would still leave uh existing products in the marketplace untouched. So, if you own a DJI product, you should still be able to operate it. I think what it does, it does and this is not even automatic, but what it does, it gives them the power to go through an additional review of companies on the covered list and decide whether each product should be basically retroactively like uh have their have their certifications pulled, and that would prevent them from marketing or selling into into the United States.
Yeah, that was my reading of that covered list scenario. Then, if you follow it a long way down the line, if you're you're not allowed to sell new products and you're not allowed to sell your existing product line, you're also probably not going to be very excited about any service, you know, or, you know, maintenance for existing products. And in fact, in general, if you're banned as DJI straight after December, are you allowed to support existing products?
Adam W: So, I don't think there's anything to do with the covered list that would prevent us from supporting our existing customers.
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