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Old July 6th 06, 10:13 PM posted to rec.aviation.owning
Andrew Gideon
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Default who here works for Garmin Inc?

On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:01:52 +0000, john smith wrote:


The 430 was developed by Garmin.
The 480 was developed by UPSAT and inherited by Garmin.


I know. But now that they own both, they should be free to steal the UI
from one for the other.

[...]
That fact that they are still promising an upgrade
that was to be delivered five years ago shows how wrong their design
philosophy was.


Laugh Good point. In their defense, though, the TSO for a VNAV/WAAS GPS
wasn't defined at the time.

- Andrew