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I am a Teric owner. I will purchase a Peregrine, when it supports AI
If you want a computer with the size screen of a Peregrine, and AI, why not buy a Perdix AI? Is it the thinness of the Peregrine? Or the expectation of a lower cost for a Peregrine AI?
The number of Rec divers outstrips the number of tec divers by so, so much. Nothing in its price range competes with it. I’m guessing the complete opposite, and within a few months the peregrine will be their top seller.
You don't think the Atmos Mission One, at $330 competes? It has the same algorithm, and a color screen.
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You “tech” divers don’t get it. This computer is perfect for a beginning diver who is just getting into diving and the computer has more capability to take a recreational diver further down the road to advanced diving and possibly more. Think to back when you first started diving and didn’t know anything other than you wanted to get under the water. This is a niche market and shearwater is doing it well. For all the nay sayers out there, I really think your wrong. If this would have been available to me when I first started diving, I would have purchased one immediately. I did not start with AI and I bet a bunch of you didn’t either.
I believe Shearwater has not only done market research, but listened to people and have created a computer that is gonna be a game changer.
My 2 cents worth.
Glenn
I bought my first computer right after I finished OW. An Oceanic Atom 3.0, with a transmitter. I still have it and it still works. And I would have no problem using it for non-technical dives even now. Capturing my dive data, including my gas consumption data, has always seemed desirable to me, even before I finished my OW cert.
It seems to me that, between tech divers and non-tech divers ('cause we're ALL recreational divers), the desire for AI is much stronger in the non-tech diver part of the community. If the market was strong enough to put AI into a serious tech-capable computer (like the Perdix AI), then it seems like a no-brainer that you would put it into any computer that is specifically targeted at non-tech divers.
I agree with a previous post that said the Peregrine is too expensive for the entry-level market and doesn't have the features (primarily meaning AI) for the premium market.
Obviously, they are going to sell a bunch anyway. Some will buy it just because of the name (and the prestige, service, and support that that name represents). Some will buy it because they don't insist on having AI. I just think they would sell a crap-ton more of them if it had AI.
Without AI, they are directly competing with the Deep6 Gear computer at $275 and the Atmos computer at $330. With AI, it would have been no competition.