[aprssig] APRS needs...
Scott Miller
scott at opentrac.org
Mon May 26 17:29:03 EDT 2008
It's a nice thought, but it's not entirely true. Just building a better
product has never been enough to be commercially successful.
Marketing issues aside, the potential market is only so big, and
developing anything like this as a completely custom product is *expensive*.
If we were just talking about the electronics, it wouldn't be so bad.
Component obsolescence is a constant problem of course, and getting good
prices on LCD screens usually means buying large numbers, but it could
be done. But with the design and tooling costs of a completely custom
solution like this... I just don't think it can be justified.
Scott
N1VG
Chuck Gooden wrote:
> Build it and they will come....
>
> Tom Hayward wrote:
>> The APRS market is too small to sell enough devices to pay for the
>> engineering required to produce such a device.
>>
>> Tom KD7LXL
>>
>> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Ev Tupis <w2ev at yahoo.com
>> <mailto:w2ev at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>
>> ... a hand-held transceiver with a clamshell qwerty
>> keyboard, color LCD screen and an open OS.
>>
>> Ev, W2EV
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