walkonmars
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You can buy from a large corporation but beware of paying for the name and reputation.
As the thread has shown us, there is nothing new offered. Other options exist offered from large and small companies. It is just shameful a large company having great resources and such a long history in the industry doesn't come up with innovative products. I understand part of their reasoning to not take risks on products that don't fit the greatest target customer group. Also, I see the trend to not to spend too much money on research, development and testing (only test to keep you out of liability suits and not based on finding feature combinations customers find useful). They can't afford to take risks and have a bad sales year so they maintain what they have done for the last decade. It works so why change it? Just advertise more and put out nicer photo shoots at exotic locations so your ad in the magazine grabs more viewers. The extra sales guy they hired could have instead been an engineer or designer for the product development department. In the mean time technology and the needs of divers have changed. Illuminated displays and computing power has increased and gotten cheaper. The evolution of more recreational divers incorporating tools of technical divers (while still maintaining "recreational" status) has become more frequent. Some of the smaller or innovative companies gave us the improved details we wanted out of our computers and the customers liked it.
As the thread has shown us, there is nothing new offered. Other options exist offered from large and small companies. It is just shameful a large company having great resources and such a long history in the industry doesn't come up with innovative products. I understand part of their reasoning to not take risks on products that don't fit the greatest target customer group. Also, I see the trend to not to spend too much money on research, development and testing (only test to keep you out of liability suits and not based on finding feature combinations customers find useful). They can't afford to take risks and have a bad sales year so they maintain what they have done for the last decade. It works so why change it? Just advertise more and put out nicer photo shoots at exotic locations so your ad in the magazine grabs more viewers. The extra sales guy they hired could have instead been an engineer or designer for the product development department. In the mean time technology and the needs of divers have changed. Illuminated displays and computing power has increased and gotten cheaper. The evolution of more recreational divers incorporating tools of technical divers (while still maintaining "recreational" status) has become more frequent. Some of the smaller or innovative companies gave us the improved details we wanted out of our computers and the customers liked it.
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