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Robert Dorsey wrote:
> The more complicated things get, the more you will see this
> approach by manufactures to help reduce the possibility of lawsuits.
I do not think this policy has anything to do with lawsuits. It is the
manufacturer not willing to spend the $$$ supporting the first time installer
and risking their reputation at the hands of a bad installation.
> I think everyone is aware that liability is the main reason for the high
> cost of operation critical hardware.
That is news to me. Things are expensive because the market is small. After
Garmin spends $5M to $10M (just a guess) to develop and certify a box, they
needs to recoup the cost in the units they sell over the next few years if they
are to stay in business. If you open up a a GNS430 and add up the cost of all
the individual parts in there, you will be hard pressed to get much over
$1,000. The rest of the price is the development cost.
Government regulation do a lot to inflate the cost of bringing a product to
market. Liability concerns do a lot to increase the cost of selling a
product. But the bottom line is that the small number of sales is what keep
the price of the product high.
Hamid
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