So, I was getting ready to buy a Perdix AI. March 2020. Then COVID happened and I wasn't diving. OK, I says to myself, I'll wait and see how long this lasts. I can always get a Perdix AI from the LDS when I am ready to go diving again. I've already put the cash in an envelope in the safe, in the basement, behind the vault door, protected by the leopard. So I can't spend it on ham radio gear. Or Japanese whiskey.
Then July 2020 the Peregrine ships. OH SHINY - I don't need multi-gas deco, the Peregrine is my sweet spot, I MUST BUY THIS MAGICAL THING. MY PRECIOUS.
Oops, no AI (which I really want, for reasons).
The Perdix AI appeared only a year or two (?) after the Perdix. It is *possible* that a Peregrine AI is in the works, or delayed by COVID. But a Peregrine AI would cannibalize sales of the Perdix AI, so if *I* was Shearwater, *I* wouldn't launch a Peregrine AI for at last another year. Margins are incredibly important in this market.
On the one hand, I want to believe that a Peregrine AI will appear. On the other hand, if I was Shearwater, I'd wait at least another year before announcing it.
(Rats, I've just talked myself into the Perdix, haven't I?)
Then July 2020 the Peregrine ships. OH SHINY - I don't need multi-gas deco, the Peregrine is my sweet spot, I MUST BUY THIS MAGICAL THING. MY PRECIOUS.
Oops, no AI (which I really want, for reasons).
The Perdix AI appeared only a year or two (?) after the Perdix. It is *possible* that a Peregrine AI is in the works, or delayed by COVID. But a Peregrine AI would cannibalize sales of the Perdix AI, so if *I* was Shearwater, *I* wouldn't launch a Peregrine AI for at last another year. Margins are incredibly important in this market.
On the one hand, I want to believe that a Peregrine AI will appear. On the other hand, if I was Shearwater, I'd wait at least another year before announcing it.
(Rats, I've just talked myself into the Perdix, haven't I?)