Most importantly, it should allow the company to gauge the reactions of the market and figure out what people want to see in their future models, allowing them to prepare something more interesting for their next release, whenever it might be.
And with that, they might even have something planned for the end of 2016 which we haven’t even heard rumors about yet, a new model that will take in all the feedback from the Hero 5 and integrate it into a device that’s exactly what people want to see. After that, releasing this device around the next holiday season is going to be a winning move.
But it’s too early to speculate on that – even the 2015 holidays are still a couple of months away, and we don’t even know if the rumors about the release date of the Hero 5 have any truth to them.
We fully expect the company to come out with some clarifications about their current work on the model, as there is a lot of interest towards it right now, and it’s growing by the day. People are convinced that this model could revive the company and shoot them back to the top of the market, or on the other hand it could be a flop if it turns out that it doesn’t have half of the features that it’s rumored to come with.