Garmin and Apollo

(S. Byrd) writes:

But I worry about the incentive to improve. The cost to market for a
new player will be enormous, because lots of the talent and
experience is locked up.

Fortunately, the talent and experience required is less and less
esoteric aviation stuff like VOR or ADF and more and more common stuff
like GPS and ruggedized, portable computing. Lots of people know that
stuff, though they'll need a couple of experienced people to steer
them through the aviation-specific certification and marketing parts.
Garmin cannot pay *all* of its people enough to keep them away from
startups, and anyone who leaves will take experience with him or her.


All the best,


David

David Megginson writes:

(S. Byrd) writes:

But I worry about the incentive to improve. The cost to market for a
new player will be enormous, because lots of the talent and
experience is locked up.

Fortunately, the talent and experience required is less and less
esoteric aviation stuff like VOR or ADF and more and more common stuff
like GPS and ruggedized, portable computing. Lots of people know that
stuff, though they'll need a couple of experienced people to steer
them through the aviation-specific certification and marketing parts.
Garmin cannot pay *all* of its people enough to keep them away from
startups, and anyone who leaves will take experience with him or her.

Yep, that's what I was thinking.

Wasn't Garmin founded by a couple of Bendix/King ex-employees?

-jav

On 08 Sep 2003 14:16:07 -0700, Javier Henderson
wrote:

Yep, that's what I was thinking.

Wasn't Garmin founded by a couple of Bendix/King ex-employees?

-jav

Yup - Gary and Min. Gary's left, but Min is still working it.
Strangely, Gary was the force behind the aviation thing, Min never
wanted it. They just may be in too deep to get out, or then again,
Honeywell may be a buying mood one day.