{"id":8091,"date":"2020-05-15T05:30:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T11:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8091"},"modified":"2020-05-15T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T11:30:33","slug":"why-have-consumer-drones-vanished-from-djis-hong-kong-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8091","title":{"rendered":"Why have consumer drones vanished from DJI&#8217;s Hong Kong stores?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abacusnews.com\/tech\/why-have-consumer-drones-vanished-djis-hong-kong-stores\/article\/3082800\">Kate Chiu<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The latest Mavic Air 2 and other consumer drones have been missing from DJI\u2019s official stores in Hong Kong, the city where the company began<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Before the rest of the world got its first taste of the Phantom or the Mavic Pro, Hong Kong was home to the team that went on to create some of DJI\u2019s biggest hits. Founded in 2006 by a model plane enthusiast studying at a university in the city, DJI spent years developing the components behind its popular drones with the help of a local professor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>But now, as DJI prepares to ship its latest drone, the Mavic Air 2 is notably missing from Hong Kong\u2019s official DJI stores. While it\u2019s available for purchase elsewhere, such as Taiwan and Japan, it can\u2019t be found in the company\u2019s glimmering three-story flagship store in downtown Hong Kong or in the official online shop, which currently shows all consumer drones listed as out of stock. A link posted in the DJI Facebook page along with a Mavic Air 2 promo video leads to a 404 error page.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou sure it\u2019s purchasable in Hong Kong? You don\u2019t even have [last year\u2019s] Mavic Mini!\u201d one person commented on the post. \u201cHave you considered how long the Hong Kong store has been running out of drones?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Chiu: The latest Mavic Air 2 and other consumer drones have been missing from DJI\u2019s official stores in Hong Kong, the city where the company began Before the rest of the world got its first taste of the Phantom or the Mavic Pro, Hong Kong was home to the team that went on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8092,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions\/8092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}