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Yuneec + 3dr Press release

Interesting new controller, I wonder if it will be made available outside the 3DR deal. It would certainly make for a good team mode 2nd controller as it should be cheaper than the ST16s. Also iOS support would hopefully tempt more app makers who solely or primarily code for apple products.

Also good news that Yuneec is chasing integrations with the online Mapping providers. Theres many who bundle subscriptions with free drone packages, such as Propeller & Datumate. Currently they're offering DJI P4Ps. For many businesses this is the first interactions with mapping, and DJI have pretty much a monopoly there.
 
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This is a VERY smart marketing move against DJI and their known data insecurity status, not to mention their default China governmental ties by virtue of their HQ location.

A very strategic positioning decision which hopefully will bring Yuneec needed revenue that perhaps results in drone innovations beyond the new controller and iOS support. With the 3DR history of SOLO mission competition issue firmly experienced, this new team can only require that he drone and flight code are highly stable and dependable. Why? there cannot be another SOLO track record. And Gov or DoD construction sites are sometimes governed by Federal security guidelines which might make unreliable drone missions infractions of the contracts.

This announcement can only mean good things for 3DR + Yuneec as data security and fight integrity will become mandates for their bids to be considered. And once a government contract is fully stipulated to spec in 3DR + Yuneec then can you say cut & paste? This means that similar jobsite contracts that need aerial services will all use the same verbiage that was used in prior winning bid specifications and 3Dr + Yuneec will have a proven response in their word processors that fully complies with existing Federal contract specifics. This essentially locks in 3DR + Yuneec to become default or perhaps sole source providers of aerial drone services to many government construction contractors who have little to no experience in drafting winning drone service proposals for Federal bid responses.

If any of the forum members who have recent activity in responding to Federal contracts can provide your more recent experience, I welcome for you to flesh out my comments. My experience is over 12 years old and based on selling high tech software and hardware to government contractors. But generally once something is proven to work and helps bidders fill in a highly specific portion of a Federal contract RFQ from the government, then these same specs get written into similar RFQ's and the same winning response gets submitted if proven to meet the requirement.

This has the potential to become BIG business for 3DR and not so much for Yuneec as the data management portion of a drone contract largely out weighs ($$$$'s) the data acquisition of a construction contract. The drone cowboy (Pilot in Charge) is a data ***** and the data management portion of a drone contract (3DR) is effectively the pimp. However the aircraft must be reliable and robust for all of the almost daily flight missions which are becoming routine for some of the large construction and management contractors. For instance Burns & McDonell, who have their own in-house drone department for all of their construction management contracts.
 

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