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I think this is a drone targeted at people who don't want a drone though. If you did want a drone, you wouldn't get this, you can't even fly it around. But if you want drone snaps, this is probably way better than dicking around with a mavic. Click the button, drone snap incoming, and you didn't do squat. No flying, no SD cards or file handling. Drone shot triggered straight from the app, and sent straight back into it.

I think there's a psychological component at play here where better = worse.

Imagine you're at a party, and someone pulls out their sleek, expensive looking, 4k video drone.

Now imagine someone pulls out this obnoxious yellow square frisbee thing.

Which of these are you more likely to "act natural" around?

Pretty interesting point, didn’t think of that. The casualty of it.

It is rather intimidating to see someone piloting with a large controller, as opposed to just whipping out their phone like any other time. Definitely makes for a more low-risk social interaction.

It has 0/10th of the controller though.