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Re:DJI Virtual Flight (iOS) has been broken for five months by clnq on Saturday September 09, 2023 @12:44PM (#37447322)
In profit-oriented management, it makes no sense to waste engineering resources on an old premium priced ("buy once") product that will be bought by more or less the same number of late adopters whether it's maintained or not. It makes much more sense to use these resources for new products. It's not that they don't care about lifecycle support, it's that they care about profit more.

I don't know about fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders managers have in China, but in the US, it might be illegal to support an existing product when more profit can be extracted from building a new one.

Sad state of affairs but it is the current state.

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Re:DJI Virtual Flight (iOS) has been broken for five months by Shaanie on Saturday September 09, 2023 @01:19PM (#37447733)
>it might be illegal to support an existing product when more profit can be extracted from building a new one.

Lol no, that's just a reddit opinion. Business judgment rule means businesses have a huge leeway on how to do business, outside of fraud or intentionally trying to cripple the company.

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Re:DJI Virtual Flight (iOS) has been broken for five months by bobbob1921 on Saturday September 09, 2023 @01:51PM (#37448114)
Unrelated to drones (but is a hardware/software manufacturer)- I would like to call out Axis (as an Axis network cameras) as one of the rare positive lights in this mess. They clearly state how long their products will be software supported, and they stick to that minimum and frequently go well beyond that minimum.

Axis has products that are over 10 years old that still receive frequent security only firmware updates. If they can do it across hundreds of different hardware products, then these companies can too. (in fact, Axis was doing it well before this became a main stream issue)

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Re:DJI Virtual Flight (iOS) has been broken for five months by TeMPOraL on Saturday September 09, 2023 @03:16PM (#37449254)
> If they can do it across hundreds of different hardware products, then these companies can too.

It's pretty clear the issue isn't "we can't", but rather "we can, but why would we want that".

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