FCC swamped with angry pleas over DJI, Autel drone ban - DroneDJ

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.

American firefighters, inspectors, and search teams are pleading with the FCC not to ban DJI drones — a $7,300 DJI thermal drone would cost ~$25,000 to replace with a US-made alternative that's less capable and 3x the price.