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Hi Chris.
Fully agree with your comments, but still feel the need to vent on the propriatary vs open standard issue especially wrt to simrad, lowrance etc.
My view is that the foundation of the solution should be and interoperable protocol base. If a vendor comes up with a better performing protocol than the open standards as most vendors claim, then they should let the market decide and offer both whilst offering open interfaces to all their application products. I like most consumers hate vendor lockin on protocols, devices and applications. In old fashion terms, it should be along the lines that if you proclaim to be the man then you should act like a man and stand up to the test of the market. If the proprietary protocols are better including their vendor locks, then they will win. If not, the market will decide and onr innovation, performance and best of breed. Most of the time, propriatary loses out against open standard and that goes from a consumer sperpective as much as it does for a vendor. So why do we have to suffer from arrogant vendors that push for vendor lock?
Rant over.
Ben.
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