Jay Honeck wrote:
had a LONNNNNG chat with the Lowrance people, who were having a
looooog day answering the "where's the weather?" questions...

Can you imagine working a major even like SNF or OSH for Lowrance and
AvMap the last few years? All they've heard is "Where's the weather?"
from tens of thousands of people. It's got to be like fingernails on a
chalkboard by now.

The fact that neither company has been able to produce a weather product
is more suspicious than ever. Did Garmin make an iron-clad exclusive
deal with XM?

No XM Garmin didn't. Just look at the XM site
http://www.xmradio.com/weather/hardw...lutions_av.xmc

I count 12 companies offering hardware.