The Karma is ultimately dead .
Firstannouncedin December of 2015 , action River Cam company GoPro has pulled the plug on its heavily delayed , fatal aerial picture taking drone , best have it off for its spectacular leaning forfallingout of the sky . The news program comes days aftera reportthat said the company was repose off several hundred employee , most of whom were bind to its laggard flight devision .
GoPro amount to prominence through a smart but unsustainable fusillade of first - someone extreme sportsman telecasting . It bet vainglorious on the Karma — its maraud into droning — to distinguish itself from less expensive contender like Xiaomi which have been eating away at its marketplace part for mini action Cam … by pushing into the already crowded drone game dominated by heavyweights like DJI .
That plan , like so many Karma drones before it , crashed and burned .
GoPro has been financially unhealthy forsome time , andaccordingto TechCrunch , cutbacks now expand to CEO Nicholas Woodman , who has reduced his pay to $ 1 . ( As of the time of this clause ’s publication , a Karma can still be purchase through GoPro ’s website for $ 600 . )
[ TechCrunch ]
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