If DJI introduced a paid option for a waypoint modification...

[Ziggy01]

...for, say US$150.

Would you purchase it?

I would.

 

[Pondhopper]

For $150, not even the remotest possibility of the merest hint of the outside chance that i'd buy it.

If it was a reasonably cheap one-time cost, maybe. I doubt i'd even pay a tenth of what you suggest.

Also, subscriptions models can <go away>.

 

[Ziggy01]

For $150, not even the remotest possibility of the merest hint of the outside chance that i'd buy it.

If it was a reasonably cheap one-time cost, maybe. I doubt i'd even pay a tenth of what you suggest.

Also, subscriptions models can <go away>.

Fair enough.

Ill report this finding back to the DJI marketing department.

 

[Yorkshire_Pud]

Not the slightest chance, they are already charging an F'ng arm and leg.

 

[Saladshooter]

For a pro pilot $150 is just a drop in the bucket and would pay off on the first job. The way I fly currently doesn't require waypoints but if I needed it for professional work that sort of fee would be paid with a smile.

 

[Yorkshire_Pud]

For a pro pilot $150 is just a drop in the bucket and would pay off on the first job. The way I fly currently doesn't require waypoints but if I needed it for professional work that sort of fee would be paid with a smile.

but what about a hobby pilot? To me it would be a fair kick in the nuts to fork out x,000 for a drone that, at the moment may be problematic, and then be asked to fork out another $150 for a software add on.

 

[JoostGT3]

No chance in hell I would pay any extra money for this functionality. The prices are going up in ridiculous speeds, with specs going up just at market pace. A few years ago I was comfortably in the "must have latest and greatest" group, whereas now I am really in the "With these prices I am going to hold onto my gear until it is absolutely dropping out of the sky and then I'll try to repair it as long as I can" group. Adding insult to injury by going to a paid extra software features model would VERY quickly made me look at competing brands and/or abandon the hobby altogether. There is a limit to how much you can stretch the loyalty of your long-time customers, and it has been reached for me.

Please consider forwarding this opinion to the DJI marketing department as well.

 

[Ziggy01]

No chance in hell I would pay any extra money for this functionality. The prices are going up in ridiculous speeds, with specs going up just at market pace. A few years ago I was comfortably in the "must have latest and greatest" group, whereas now I am really in the "With these prices I am going to hold onto my gear until it is absolutely dropping out of the sky and then I'll try to repair it as long as I can" group. Adding insult to injury by going to a paid extra software features model would VERY quickly made me look at competing brands and/or abandon the hobby altogether. There is a limit to how much you can stretch the loyalty of your long-time customers, and it has been reached for me.

Please consider forwarding this opinion to the DJI marketing department as well.

I was thinking about this in terms of "base model" and "extras", much like you might find in a new car. Perhaps flashing the internal memory in some way. As it stands consumers are familiar with add-ons for their drones. Why not include extra functionality as an option?

 

[Ziggy01]

but what about a hobby pilot? To me it would be a fair kick in the nuts to fork out x,000 for a drone that, at the moment may be problematic, and then be asked to fork out another $150 for a software add on.

No problem.

In my DJI world you would have paid $150 less for the A2S without Waypoint Functionality. I don't believe adding this feature (which was common in previous models) would have cost DJI anything at all. My belief is that the lack of this functionality is a cynical cash-grab to force users who want this option to purchase future models. In which case, why not save us the pain of upgrading the entire drone with a cynical cash-grab in the form of a paid addition to the existing model?

 

[Bob Jones]

...for, say US$150.

Would you purchase it?

I would.

Why should we pay for a function the drone should have already. Mavic3 is the dji flagship and doesn't have waypoints, disappointing in such an awesome machine.

 

[mobilehomer]

I would gladly pay the same as the after market apps charge. About $25.

 

[Ziggy01]

Why should we pay for a function the drone should have already. Mavic3 is the dji flagship and doesn't have waypoints, disappointing in such an awesome machine.

Agree.

Agree.

and agree.

However, IF they offered it...

 

[Bob Jones]

Agree.

Agree.

and agree.

However, IF they offered it...

I don't think so.

 

[Ziggy01]

I don't think so.

You're making the DJI marketing division very unhappy.

 

[test2000Anafi]

Under EU law, is this forbidden btw?

 

[JoostGT3]

I was thinking about this in terms of "base model" and "extras", much like you might find in a new car. Perhaps flashing the internal memory in some way. As it stands consumers are familiar with add-ons for their drones. Why not include extra functionality as an option?

No. I don’t know how you feel about it, but to me, the artificial diversification of models is absolutely infuriating. It is sold to the greater public as “having a choice to pay or not for options you do or don’t want”. But that is not the reason at all. There is a marketing trick behind it, to keep customers feeling that they should spend more for extra’s, otherwise they feel they “don’t possess the complete package”. It is not a “service” from DJI to is, it is playing mind tricks with your customer base, and it is a way of the company to say “we don’t care about your feelings at all, we just try to squeeze as much money from you as we can.” And I’m not buying it.

 

[EsaT]

You shouldn't give them ideas about crippling products to add payable features...

 

[Ziggy01]

No. I don’t know how you feel about it, but to me, the artificial diversification of models is absolutely infuriating. It is sold to the greater public as “having a choice to pay or not for options you do or don’t want”. But that is not the reason at all. There is a marketing trick behind it, to keep customers feeling that they should spend more for extra’s, otherwise they feel they “don’t possess the complete package”. It is not a “service” from DJI to is, it is playing mind tricks with your customer base, and it is a way of the company to say “we don’t care about your feelings at all, we just try to squeeze as much money from you as we can.” And I’m not buying it.

I couldn't agree with you more.

But one cynical cash-grab might invoke another. Thus this thread.

"You shouldn't give them ideas about crippling products to add payable features..."

Lol.

I have little doubt that this rather obvious idea has crossed their sneaky little minds. I just wish they would address it once and for all.

 

[CraigVMN]

Why should owners of the most popular brand of drones, who have already paid for the product, be expected to pony up more money for something other manufacturers include for free?

 

[Bob Jones]

You're making the DJI marketing division very unhappy.

Oh Ziggy. I do care, as much as they do.