RCModelReviews wrote:I'd like to see them add a boot-loader and USB connector to the 9X so that people can simply flash new firmware directly from their PCs. Then the Chinese could forget all about the hassles of trying to fix their buggy software and rely on others to do that for them. It'd boost sales immensely.
Unfortunately, FlySky are not known for actually listening to customers.
They absolutely should. It's free software development for them! There's a lot of room for improvement and I could see myself contributing to those projects.
Heck, I personally know a guy who wrote his own custom firmware for the Graupner MC22, and believe me, it puts everything Graupner to shame. It's the most intuitive menu system I have seen on a transmitter yet. Graupner's response? Why, a cease and desist letter of course, despite it having been a clean room implementation! Customers improving their property? We can't have that, now can we? They should've just given the guy 10 grand or something like that, and buy out his software.
For a positive example of this, check out "JJ-OS" for the Akai MPC-1000. It's tolerated by Akai, and it turns an otherwise mediocre drummachine/sampler into a fully featured music production studio. Akai is not really endorsing it, but they're not going after it either. They realized that JJ-OS directly translates to additional sales for them.