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Garmin and Apollo
I just heard that Garmin has bought Apollo (UPSAT).
I have used products from both companies gong back to Apollo 612 LORANS and GPS100, and it has always seemed that every generation brought better stuff, especially in the user interface. I hope this will make it even better. What does anybody else think? Syd. |
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"S. Byrd" wrote:
I just heard that Garmin has bought Apollo (UPSAT). I hope this will make it even better. What does anybody else think? I think unless Bendix/King wakes up (unlikely, based on my conversations with them at OSH), light aircraft owners will be getting screwed even more vigorously than they are now. -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 21:09:50 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote: What does anybody else think? Less Competition = Higher Costs Less Competition = Less Innovation Less Competition = Less Responsive Customer Service Let's hope ICOM, or King, or NARCO, or SOMEBODY jumps in to fill the void, or we'll all be paying a lot more. Amen! |
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Good. Maybe the stock will go up some more.
Mike MU-2 "Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:y2s6b.374576$YN5.251520@sccrnsc01... What does anybody else think? Less Competition = Higher Costs Less Competition = Less Innovation Less Competition = Less Responsive Customer Service Let's hope ICOM, or King, or NARCO, or SOMEBODY jumps in to fill the void, or we'll all be paying a lot more. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Less Competition = Higher Costs is not always the case. If you have a
relatively low volume product, where a large percentage of the product's cost is design & development, not manufacturing, eliminating one of the competitors can actually create an environment where costs could go down. The surviving company will usually optimize the product price to maximize total profit. Many times, the optimal total profit is achieved with a lower product price generating significantly increased volume. Mike Schumann "Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:y2s6b.374576$YN5.251520@sccrnsc01... What does anybody else think? Less Competition = Higher Costs Less Competition = Less Innovation Less Competition = Less Responsive Customer Service Let's hope ICOM, or King, or NARCO, or SOMEBODY jumps in to fill the void, or we'll all be paying a lot more. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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GRMN
But come to think of it, UPSAT was losing money, so UPS is better off too. Mike MU-2 "Greg Burkhart" wrote in message news:ziM6b.386358$uu5.72237@sccrnsc04... "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message k.net... Good. Maybe the stock will go up some more. Mike MU-2 UPS or GRMN? |
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The surviving company will usually optimize the product price to maximize
total profit. Many times, the optimal total profit is achieved with a lower product price generating significantly increased volume. And how is this determined, if there is no other show in town to compete against? Answer: By setting it at whatever the (formerly) rich pilot will pay. If there is no UPSAT to field a competing product, what possible incentive will Garmin have to lower the price? No, less competition in the avionics world is going to hurt us all, I'm afraid. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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"Jay Honeck" writes:
The surviving company will usually optimize the product price to maximize total profit. Many times, the optimal total profit is achieved with a lower product price generating significantly increased volume. And how is this determined, if there is no other show in town to compete against? Answer: By setting it at whatever the (formerly) rich pilot will pay. If there is no UPSAT to field a competing product, what possible incentive will Garmin have to lower the price? They'll set the price wherever it fits best on the supply/demand curve: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand Assume (for a new model) a that Garmin has a fixed overhead of $10M (for certification, equipment, plant, etc.), and variable costs of $500/unit -- would Garmin rather wholesale 1,000 units at $10,000, or 3,000 units at $5,000? Before the StrikeFinder came out, for example, BFG still couldn't charge $25K for a StormScope, even without any competition in the range. Competition does help, of course, but it's not the only thing that controls prices. No, less competition in the avionics world is going to hurt us all, I'm afraid. That may well be true, but this might also be an incentive for someone else to enter the market -- maybe some UPSAT employees will leave to form their own startup, the way the Garmin guys left Bendix-King. To take another example, you have the only hotel at your airport -- what keeps you from raising the rates to, say, $500/night? All the best, David |
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To take another example, you have the only hotel at your airport --
what keeps you from raising the rates to, say, $500/night? Heeeyyyy.... -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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In article , David Megginson
wrote: To take another example, you have the only hotel at your airport -- what keeps you from raising the rates to, say, $500/night? A.) Jay knows pilots and B.) Jay knows that pilots are cheapskates. :-) |
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