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1. 02:31 AM - Re: Garmin GDL 49 (Mark Thomas Mueller)
2. 05:43 AM - Re: Garmin GDL 49 (Brian Lloyd)
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| Subject: | Re: Garmin GDL 49 |
--> Avionics-List message posted by: "Mark Thomas Mueller" <mark.t.mueller@comcast.net>
Funny thing I discovered yesterday. Garmin has just released a GDL-30
for Marine applications. The GDL-30 IS XM!!! MSRP is UNDER $900!!!
How long do you think it will take Garmin to take the same boards, and
provide output for the 430/530? Does anyone think the MSRP of the
aviation version will be under $900???
Don't take me the wrong way. I am not "anti-Garmin" products. I think
some of them are outstanding. Even though I am a bit miffed at Garmin's
legacy product support, I still would have ended up with a 430 in my
plane over a 530 (although the CNX-80 looks mighty fine, but Garmin
bought out their real competition anyway.)
My beef is with the way Garmin does business. Everything is proprietary
to lock you into their product line support, just like Microshaft. Their
sales and marketing reps are a shade above "Used Car Salesmen" IMHO
(they just have better products to sell.) I also don't like the way
Garmin moved their Corporate HQ to a shell corp in the Cayman's to avoid
paying US taxes. I just HATE to pay more in individual taxes than a
profitable corporation.
Mark
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| Subject: | Re: Garmin GDL 49 |
--> Avionics-List message posted by: Brian Lloyd <brianl@lloyd.com>
Mark Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Don't take me the wrong way. I am not "anti-Garmin" products. I think
> some of them are outstanding.
I would like to know which ones. I had a Garmin GTX-320 transponder which was
only two or three millimeters above the junk category. The design of the 430
and 530 have several single points of failure.
> Even though I am a bit miffed at Garmin's
> legacy product support, I still would have ended up with a 430 in my
> plane over a 530 (although the CNX-80 looks mighty fine, but Garmin
> bought out their real competition anyway.)
Yeah, it is too bad, isn't it?
> I also don't like the way
> Garmin moved their Corporate HQ to a shell corp in the Cayman's to avoid
> paying US taxes. I just HATE to pay more in individual taxes than a
> profitable corporation.
Well, now my estimation of Garmin just went up a notch. I believe it is right
and proper for people to avoid paying taxes as much as possible. Still, being
a Cayman Island corporation doesn't provide much tax shelter anymore. Maybe
you should be looking at incorporating in the Caymans.
And speaking of tax dollars, do you know how many hundreds of billions of dollars
have gone into "the war on drugs"? Regardless, you can still get crack almost
anywhere you go in the US. It certainly was a good investment, wasn't it.
And one last thing to remember: we elected them.
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