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GoPro had no real advantage in the drone world; they made/make a cheap, good-enough quality camera for a pretty selective use-case. As a layperson it would look

GoPro had no real advantage in the drone world; they made/make a cheap, good-enough quality camera for a pretty selective use-case. As a layperson it would look significantly easier to catch up in the optics vs autonomous & semi-auto vehicle platform. GoPro's drone was never more than a toy.

Sohcahtoa82 3y ago
If I'm understanding your comment correctly, GoPro made a drone that lacked all the features you'd expect in a modern drone and tried to sell it on brand recognition alone?
- phonon 3y ago
  https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/15/14922328/gopro-karma-drone-review https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/15/14922328/gopro-karma-dron...
- tesseract 3y ago
  It also infamously had an issue where the battery would loosen and become disconnected during flight, rapidly followed by the drone falling out of the sky.
whatever1 3y ago
In the mid 2010’s GoPro had a huge mind share among content creators and was multibillion company. They could easily buy a drone startup to get the necessary talent.
BizarroLand 3y ago
GoPros came by default on the 3DR Solo drone, which was used in a few Michael Bay films like the teenage mutant ninja turtles movie. However, DJI had a lighter drone with more battery life and flight time and much better software and competed hard, getting to the point where 3DR left the consumer drone space entirely and abandoned the 3DR solo. If you want to get into drones cheaply, you can usually get a 3DR solo for a few hundred bucks and install OpenSolo4 on it, which will make it work again.