"planned obsolescence" for the Mavic

PaoloOne · Jun 16, 2017

Since the release of the Spark and after DJI Go 4.0.7 an FW .700 I don't see any more advantages in upgrading, actually the 4.1.0 brought a lot of app crashes on my Android devices and I have then downgraded.
I have the feeling that the Mavic is not anymore the focus for optimizing something in the software, new features are added for the newcomers but this makes the apps just heavier and less optimized for our beloved bird.
Is the Mavic for DJI already an old product? I think it is time to stop upgrading!

Kestrel · Jun 16, 2017

PaoloOne said:
Since the release of the Spark and after DJI Go 4.0.7 an FW .700 I don't see any more advantages in upgrading, actually the 4.1.0 brought a lot of app crashes on my Android devices and I have then downgraded.
I have the feeling that the Mavic is not anymore the focus for optimizing something in the software, new features are added for the newcomers but this makes the apps just heavier and less optimized for our beloved bird.
Is the Mavic for DJI already an old product? I think it is time to stop upgrading!

Not true, They've did updates for the Phantom 4 since the Mavic has been out so why would they stop since the spark came out.

Kilrah · Jun 16, 2017

What about the goggles and related features that just got added in .800?

It's still getting improvements.

Flycaster · Jun 16, 2017

The "new favorite child"????
No, just getting swept up in the ecosystem of DJI...

Oconnb910 · Jun 16, 2017

Different classes, Different Market. Still Relative for a long time hopefully.

nickmavic · Jun 16, 2017

Kilrah said:
What about the goggles and related features that just got added in .800?

It's still getting improvements.

Goggles features in 800? Havent the Goggles worked fine since 400 or earlier?

Kilrah · Jun 16, 2017

Yeah but .800 added the fairly important head tracking sensitivity setting.

tcope · Jun 16, 2017

I would tend to agree that using the same app for all devices is going to bloat it. Though I suspect that almost all of the app is used across all platforms. What this also means is if something if "fixed" in the Go app for something like the Spark, that "fix" would also apply to the Mavic of P4.

I agree completely that the Android Go app is crashing WAY too often right now and there has been no indication from DJI that this is being addressed.

PaoloOne · Jun 16, 2017

tcope said:
I would tend to agree that using the same app for all devices is going to bloat it. Though I suspect that almost all of the app is used across all platforms. What this also means is if something if "fixed" in the Go app for something like the Spark, that "fix" would also apply to the Mavic of P4.

I agree completely that the Android Go app is crashing WAY too often right now and there has been no indication from DJI that this is being addressed.

Well the changes for the Phantom or the Inspire will likely affect nothing on the Mavic since the P4 as the Inspire uses lightbridge that is hardware based, the problem is clearly the Ocusync decoder that crashes. I think that the Spark integration has affected in a negative way the Mavic integration since shares this delicate and processor heavy balance of a purely software based encoding-decoding task.
This explains to me why 4.0.7 is more stable for the Mavic, I assume is a "Short bed sheet" story. Pulling on the Spark side it shortens the Mavic one.