In article URqAf.714896$x96.702487@attbi_s72,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:
Lowrance is big, dumb, and the world-leader in marine GPS -- a far larger
market -- so they look at aviation as an impossibly tiny niche market.

I'll bet their marine units get XM first.

The fact that Garmin has delivered XM on its marine units and Lowrance
hasn't just illustrates by how much Lowrance missed the boat.

Hopefully, they'll get on board soon. I have the impression that Garmin
pitched quite a few resources at XM delivery (they designed the
receivers and software themselves), and I suspect that such an
investment may have been a larger risk for Lowrance. Garmin has
products outside of the portable markets to which they could apply this
investment.

I will point out that I have preferred Lowrance units over the years,
but XM weather was too important for me to wait around for Lowrance.
While I don't care for some elements of Garmin's units, their UI is very
well designed, and they've done an excellent job of implementing the XM
weather features.



JKG