BadWolf1
Well-Known Member
Really that's "none of (a)-(d) but ... "Or maybe (e) DJI did something rather stupid with the Mini that's costing them a lot of sales and ill will. Nah, that's unthinkable.
In product planning, you sit down and say "How many possible buyers for the product will we lose if we cut this / gain if we add this.". I have been in meetings where someone says "Customers want feature X" , and the reply comes back "Yes, but if we include X the price goes up 10%, and that costs more customers", or "Including X will delay it by a year" or "Including X means cutting Y to make some other target". At different times I have won and lost arguments , been on both add feature and omit feature sides and seen the decisions proved right and wrong.
Those who really care about a feature often see it as core to success when it isn't. Either DJI did the research to show this choice would cost few sales and little ill will, or that was decided on gut instinct. Possibly their estimate was wrong enough to label the decision a mistake, but I think that's unlikely. (But also those don't really care about a feature see it as not core to success when it is)