Palm Desert Eyes Police DJI Drones Amid Privacy Questions - DroneXL.co

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.

Palm Desert's drone choice isn't DJI vs. privacy—it's DJI vs. being surveilled by their neighbors anyway. The math is brutal: $15K/year for DJI vs. $774K/year for American alternatives. The cheap option wins, policy questions or not.