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Meh, the drone thing has been out for a while & was designed solely to work with the iPhone; the drone is an iPhone accessory essentially so you can't really complain about it not having a standard remote.

The XO-1 however is a 'standard' r/c car which requires an iDevice to unlock extra features- that's what has peeved so many guys really.

I think the main issue isn't so much price of the iPhone/plod/touchmyself since they can be bought cheaply used as pointed out already, it's more to do with having to buy a 'new' phone or mp3 player just to access the features... of an r/c car.

I'd rather have seen castle and/or traxxas release their own touch-screen device that plugged into the transmitter or esc ( with an add-on of some sort- wireless castlelink adaptor if you will ) to open up the extra features, atleast that way people aren't so put-out by having to buy into an Apple product they won't otherwise use...