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Let's get rid of NMEA
Larry wrote:
Poit wrote in 00.119: Open standards has worked well for the internet for years and this could be applied here as well. AS much as I like open source and open standards, on boat electronics I'll have to disagree. Profits would be so low with so few actual customers, none of them would survive..... How many people within 10 square miles of your house own a boat radar? See my point? The market is really TINY, even if the clients are very rich. Bill Gates is only gonna buy ONE radar for his yacht. The guy down your dock only buys his because he can't get one for free on the cheap. So, we sold 2 radars at amazing profit margins.....instead of one at lots less profit margin in the open source radar world. Manufacturers would flee the market if they couldn't rip off the rich boaters with proprietary stuff to sell 'em more....... The market is just not there..... hmmmm, well, firstly I measure square kilometers, secondly where I live on the Norwegian coast I would count about 3000 leasure boat owners in the ten square kilometers, about half of them has a closed top boat with permanently fitted equipment like autopilot, GPS, some chart plotters etc. I would guess some 10% having large leasure boats with radar. Then there are somewhere between 20-50 full time or part time fishermen, all with fully equipped electonics on board and finally, we only have two ship lines with a total fleet of about 30 large commercial vessels using expensive stuff from Kongsberg, JRC and others. We who pay for our own stuff rant on a regular basis about the lacking interoperability, cost and for the techies - moaning&groaning about the closed proprietary standards removing all the fun. I agree with the original posting: communication should be as open as HTML and our kroner, dollars or what have you should be spent on developing better systems, not closed systems. I'd buy that open box, and a few houndred others in my neghbourhood. |
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