DJI commissioned a U.S. cybersecurity firm. Result: 'no evidence of data transmission outside the United States.' The FCC banned them anyway. DJI sells over half of all U.S. commercial drones.
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This was the week the FCC fight stopped being only about DJI. Autel filed a reply that publicly broke ranks, Michigan's 15-bill state-drone-ban package collapsed in committee, and DJI quietly engineered the Air 4 into a sub-250g class that sidesteps the FCC pathway entirely. Six stories — in priority order, with our take on each.
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DJI used two weeks to anoint the Pocket 4P as a cinema product at Cannes rather than a consumer product at its own event, absorb a fourth US-block casualty with Osmo Mobile 8P, watch the FCC fight enter its most adversarial phase, and collect NAB hardware that validates the pivot. Here's what happened — in priority order, with our take on each.
DJI made more news in seven days than most companies make in a quarter. A new product launched (and got blocked from US sale, again). A major event got teased. The FCC fight escalated to a $1.56 billion court filing. And DJI's home market joined the regulatory pile-on. Here's what happened, in priority order, with our take on each.
