No More DJI drones? Your thoughts?

[Maxmars]

Maxmars & Guyfriday,

While I agree with the basic theme of both of your posts (and they are similar, thus the combined response), I think you may be missing a key element of my point.

No, the drone world will not keel over dead without DJI.  Equally, DJI (the company) manufactures very little of the drone itself.  They engineered it, and they assembled it, but most of the parts for DJI drones, as with virtually all other drones, comes from components made in Asia (specifically China), but not by DJI specifically.  And, this is kind of the point...this isn't a DJI issue, which is why it's an "issue" here (in the OP).  These components are in virtually all drones...even military ones.  In particular, the printed circuits for the GPS tracking systems, and the gyro stabilization systems, which are critical to stable flight, are manufactured overseas.  These are the parts being targeted.  So, why DJI then, right?

Well, that's a good question.  Part of the answer is contained in how much market share DJI commands, the lion's share.  Yes, private parties do build their own drones, BUT they're using the same parts DJI is using.  This is why the action against DJI in particular makes no sense.  I'm not defending DJI here; I could care less about them.  But what I am arguing for is stopping this nonsense.  Yes, you can find 100 varieties of drones on Amazon, AliEx, Temu and more for way cheaper.  And...they all suck badly.  DJI drones are much better quality, much more stable and use much better gear...this is why they're being targeted...because they actually "work" (unlike the other garbage).

The point here isn't DJI.  Yes, DJI is big enough to stand up and say something about it, and now they are.  The more central issue is the drone component technology, which is hundreds of companies.  This move on DJI was just an effort to take down the big guy first.  The rest of the players will be easy to take down after the precedent is set with the market leader, the guy who builds the best of the best drones for both amateur and professional users.

See the point now?

Ah, I see now.

Yes, perhaps the focus on the accepted excuse for the legislation as "Chinese spying" is an incomplete or a cosmetic matter. 
Where they might get better results (given the focus) is if they actually scrutinized and acted against manufacturers of components which specifically lead to the whole 'streaming data' to someone other than the owners/operators. That seems to me a matter of engineering and design... enabling and perhaps hardcoding the capability within the device.

The brand itself is only a corporate label... a revenue repository, as it were.
I don't disagree that this restriction is a half-measure which plays well as a dramatic aspect of the story... but really doesn't address the problem itself.

As to why it matters here in the OP is relatively simple... it is the subject offered up for discussion.  A request for our thoughts...