Skydio Announces End to Consumer Drone

[GFields]

Skydio will no longer be selling drones to consumers.

For years, Skydio has denied rumors that it was planning to pivot away from consumer sales, and start selling drones strictly to enterprise customers.


Just two months back we shared news that the Skydio 2+ had been out of stock for quite some time, a fact that Sally French of the Drone Girl speculated was due to preparation for a pivot away from the consumer market. At the time, a Skydio spokesperson told French that the shortage was simply due to high demand.


But now we know she was right.

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[look]

Is there any alternative out there for tracking without app or remote? Something else that use a beacon like autonomous flying?

 

[Ridefreak]

If you want autonomous subject tracking at decent speed with avoidance the SD2 is the only game in town.

 

[look]

Well... but it is not available anymore...
So which options private customers have?

 

[Ridefreak]

Find a used one.

 

[look]

great answer. but even these will end soon...
What about the batteries?.. software upgrades? hardware support?
to buy discontinued drone ?...

 

[Ridefreak]

I purchased 4 new batteries from SD after the announcement if that counts for anything. As a long time user with other drones I know there's nothing I can buy that can replace the SD2 for certain things, one of them is filming an off-road MC ride almost 100% autonomously. I immediately bought a nice used spare when they made that announcement.

It's disappointing, I was one of their early testers and always appreciated its capabilities as many of us on here. As a typical consumer, getting the enterprise announcements from them touting their new capabilities is like salting the wound.

 

[VEGASROBBI]

great answer. but even these will end soon...
What about the batteries?.. software upgrades? hardware support?
to buy discontinued drone ?...

I've come to learn that software updates are not always a good thing.

Fortunately the last update seems to be a good one my S2 has been performing well, I have no desire or a need to update it anymore.