Fwiw - karma was the fist ultra portable drone on the market. And it's a system for go pro users. It's purpose is completely different than the karma. It's meant to fit into an existing workflow. Is it simple - yes. In some places that makes it a more elegant solution. Not as much stuff to go wrong. It's also their first product - hopefully they are able to come out with a v2 or more! We need the competition.
If you look at the problems people are having with the mavic this might justify the simplicity. Mavic was rushed into production and by looking at all the issues, many are starting to worry that they made a $1300 mistake. The sensors are wonky, the app(s) is now in its 3rd iteration. The gps and compass are having a lot of issues,the gimbal is flimsy and the camera is a quality control nightmare.
My original point is that neither system is what we want it to be and the way the market is - I doubt we get that all in one, ultra portable, mega duration drone for a long time.
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1) First of all there are probably 100 Karma's flying right now. There are several thousand if not hundred thousand Mavics flying. If one Karma has a problem thats a 1% failure rate. If 100 Mavics have a problem it's probably a 0.1% failure rate.
I have not seen 100 posts that involved problems that the owner could not fix by re-calibration or realizing they had some setting wrong because they never read the manual.
2) Anyone who has a problem with a Mavic ends up on this forum bitching about it. Just take a look at most of the posts with complaints, it's typically from a guy who has 1-5 posts on the forum.
3) The Karma is not even close to the Mavic in terms of the technical ability or design. Can I fly the Karma up in the air and then concentrate on something else for a photo shoot and feel confident that the Karma is not descending to a crash?
With the Mavic I feel very comfortable even in fairly high wind that it will stay where I put it and not move.
4) GoPro was also built on the idea of portability. The Karma is not that portable the Mavic is very portable.
As for Crispbacon2000 remark that the iphonedo guy is working for DJI. That is a huge libelous accusation considering he just did a video panning the competitors product. Do you have any proof ?
I liked the video, I am not going to judge it based on the guys accent. If I can understand what he is saying I am happy and this guy is very easy to understand and very humerus. Sorry if the Karma lovers did not like the video, but I see no lies in what he said and even the "Drone Valley" guys seem to back him up because they really have nothing positive to say about the Karma except that I should buy one to support GoPro so they can make a Karma2. Hell no!
GoPro could have waited 6 more months and redesigned a better Karma but instead they wanted to keep all of the existing tech and put a Band aid on the Karma and just keep selling it without investing anymore cash in R&D.
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