Again, I believe every single goddamned product that requires an app and/or internet activation to work (ot provide all functions it advertises) needs a big fucking warning on the box similar to cancer warnings on cigarette packs. It also needs to be PROMINENTLY featured in the product description when it's sold - none of that fine print, big bold capital goddamned letters, right in everyone's face. The app cancer should be fought and advised against just like the real one...
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I believe when any app or service associated with a physical product is decommissioned, it should be a legal requirement that all associated code is open sourced.
They either support their products, or provide a means for anyone to do it when they abandon them.
Yikes! I’m in the market for a gimbal to expand my amateur videography hobby. Landed on the DJI RS3 mini, it was in my price range and is well reviewed. I then found the newer RS4 mini, for a bit more, and the extra features seemed worth it. Watched a few videos about it before pulling the trigger, and then noped right out of the purchase after finding that neither gimbal will work without the app. And needs all sorts of permissions that I’m just not going to give.
Maybe I’ll do some meditation and tai chi instead to steady myself and get smoother shots.
the app is also embedded with a boat load of trackers:
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.dji.overSeaStore/latest/#trackers
That one is brutal.
This is the app that is required for the gimbal: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.dji.ronin/latest/#trackers
Not as bad, but why does a camera stabilizer need my phone along with access to location, phone camera, storage and microphones to function. It connects via Bluetooth or control cable directly to the camera to control functions. The phone is needed because… reasons. There is actual reason why this device wouldn’t work without all of that.
please god, people: learn to use punctuation, this reads like "no DJI-people sold me a license"