<story><title>Drone Bubble Bursts, Wiping Out Startups and Hammering VC Firms</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-30/drone-bubble-bursts-wiping-out-startups-and-hammering-vc-firms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tylerchilds</author><text>Anecdotally, I never got into drones because of the batteries. Everyone I met that had them absolutely loved them, but had like 4 batteries they needed to keep charged for about 15 minutes of flight time.&lt;p&gt;And quite a few tried pushing that a little too long an ended up with crashed drones. So my half cent is that batteries need to get better before people like me even consider them. Mentioned 0 times in that article.&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, drones need to get efficient enough to be solar powered, which is maybe the intent behind the acquisitions by PrecisionHawk Inc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.precisionhawk.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;topic&amp;#x2F;precisionhawk-acquires-both-hazon-inc-and-inspectools-inc-becoming-the-leading-provider-of-drone-technology-and-analytics-for-the-energy-market&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.precisionhawk.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;topic&amp;#x2F;precisionhawk...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>Even more generally, when I&amp;#x27;ve thought about getting a drone, I imagine flying it around my house a few times, take some video, and then what?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t really want to take it out into nature environments. That seems obnoxious where it&amp;#x27;s even allowed.&lt;p&gt;I suppose I could find clubs that fiddle with the things but I don&amp;#x27;t really have the interest.&lt;p&gt;So, basically, I have trouble imagining how I&amp;#x27;d use them for more than a couple days.</text></comment>
<story><title>Drone Bubble Bursts, Wiping Out Startups and Hammering VC Firms</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-30/drone-bubble-bursts-wiping-out-startups-and-hammering-vc-firms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tylerchilds</author><text>Anecdotally, I never got into drones because of the batteries. Everyone I met that had them absolutely loved them, but had like 4 batteries they needed to keep charged for about 15 minutes of flight time.&lt;p&gt;And quite a few tried pushing that a little too long an ended up with crashed drones. So my half cent is that batteries need to get better before people like me even consider them. Mentioned 0 times in that article.&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, drones need to get efficient enough to be solar powered, which is maybe the intent behind the acquisitions by PrecisionHawk Inc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.precisionhawk.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;topic&amp;#x2F;precisionhawk-acquires-both-hazon-inc-and-inspectools-inc-becoming-the-leading-provider-of-drone-technology-and-analytics-for-the-energy-market&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.precisionhawk.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;topic&amp;#x2F;precisionhawk...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>driverdan</author><text>It depends on how you use them. I travel full time so I primarily use mine for nature photography. 15 min is usually plenty of time and if not I have a 2nd battery that takes no time to swap. It would be nice to have longer battery life but it&amp;#x27;s not a deal breaker.&lt;p&gt;The only cases where needing more time would be a big deal would be for filming something that lasts longer than the battery.</text></comment>