[slg]

I'm not sure that I follow what you are saying. Are you suggesting the expectation is that each flight yields one photo? It takes milliseconds not minutes to take a photo. I would expect this thing to be taking photos nearly continuously during flight which would make flight time the most informative metric.

[qq66]

Their target market measures the value of this thing in number of Snapchat Stories it can create so really the flights does make more sense. Their target market isn't going to want to divide 3 minutes by 20 seconds.

[MegaButts]

I don't think you're their target demographic.

[mitchdoogle]

What is this supposed to mean?

"Flights" is a bad metric if they don't define it. Whatever your age, gender, income, it doesn't change that it's meaningless.

[tomtheelder]

Each flight is a snapchat story appropriate sub-minute interval, like 15-40 seconds sort of thing. I really don't want to sound condescending, but if that isn't immediately obvious then you aren't the target audience.

[adriand]

I’m not a Snapchat user and I just looked through the videos on my phone and I have tons that are in the 15 to 25s range. In fact I have hardly any that are longer than 30s. Short segments of drone video from a durable device you can throw in a bag seem fun and useful.

[slg]

Asking for clarification on battery life means I'm not their target demo? That is rather condescending to their customers. Battery life seems like a basic thing someone might want to know before spending a few hundred bucks on something like this.

[serf]

>Asking for clarification on battery life means I'm not their target demo?

I agree that it's condescending, but it's also obvious to me that there is a growing market trend to sell to a class of people that simply buy the Next Big Thing without ever learning about it, using it, or questioning the motivations behind it.

In a way that's a great group to capitalize on, they may lack the education or desire to ask the tough questions, they don't actually use the product so you don't really need to support them well, and they tend to buy oriented strongly with advertisement.

When I see a technical product marketed this way -- bright colors, flashy every-person advertisement, zero-training-required, no real technical specs -- I always imagine that it's in that class of product. Sort of the opposite of 'prosumer' classed product.

A titch bit more useful than a Funko Pop doll until The Next Next Big Thing is released by BigCo , the firmware gets dated, the batteries die and remain unreplacable due to a lack of support for The Old Big Thing, and then BigCo drops software support due to trying to shove people into the new model, and then it becomes under-bed trash with a dangerous LiPo in it.

[delabay]

> Asking for clarification on battery life means I'm not their target demo?

Precisely