Mxsmanic wrote:

All that, plus a 95% mark-up for profit.

Jepp would be doing better if it were.


Oh yeah, it's such a profitable business that Google and every
other computer company is clamoring to get into the biz.

It's not a free market.

How so? It's certainly possible for others to get into it.
Howie Keefe was in the printed chart business for years both
in reproducing the government charts and in producing his
own charts when the government didn't have something
comparable.

There are any number of people doing EFB and GPS-on-PDA
and GPS-on-computer products using combinations of
government and self produced data.

All you gotta do is get your data in line and convince
Garmin and the other manufacturers that it would be in
their best interest to either switch to you or offer
the customers a choice.