DJI Announces Mavic Air 2 Drone With 8K Support, Larger Camera Sensors, and Longer 34 Minute Flight Time

[incoherent_1]

I’ve only seen one other post mention Skydio. If you want American, if you want “follow me” features, check out Skydio.

The company is American made, American owned, and American BUILT! Yep, built here in the US and A. As the other poster mentioned, the company was started by MIT grads. They’re only on their second edition, but it looks promising and the fact that they stand behind their product so well only proves such.

They do use a smaller sensor than the mavic pro 2 (same size image sensor as the original mavic pro), but according to their “third party” testing, image results are comparable to the mavic 2 pro. Mavic pro 2? Whatever it’s called.

In some regards, it’s no DJI drone, but in other regards, it blows away DJI. It all depends on your intended use, really. But if the data hogging, communist nation owned company has you a little concerned, then check out Skydio.


Regarding personal data collection - you really can’t escape it. Apple is just better at convincing you that they aren’t sharing your data. They have a fantastic marketing team. Even if they “aren’t” sharing your data, they’re sharing your data.
There’s a reason facebook made mz a billionaire so quickly - without ever selling an actual product to consumers. Data is $$$.
Although, in communist china, they may also be using your data to create your social “credit score” as they already have for all their citizens.

Skydio is very promising, but when you compare the image quality to DJI, it's like night and day. I hope they can up their game – match or beat DJI in their next generation.

 

[TroyBoy30]

I trust Apple more than I trust DJI -- but I do want Apple to move their iPhone assembly out of China, along with everything else.

nothing to do with apple. the Chinese could have easily added something to your phone and you would have no idea.