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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Josh Muckley <muckl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Steve, > > Check out this open source package. > > http://marinux.tuxfamily.org/ > > You can have the screen relay to a marinized touch screen at the helm or > you can use any older chart plotter/gps to interface via NMEA 0183. > > Josh > On Feb 19, 2014 9:06 PM, "Stevan Plavsa" <stevanpla...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Do you guys know what OS Raymarine, Garmin et al use? I'm sure they're >> different but I'm guessing they are all proprietary to their brand. Is that >> correct? If it is, that would mean that they have a whole team of people >> developing their OS, right? >> >> Why? >> >> A thought: why don't they simply license Android, fire their software >> department (or re-orient them to create amazing Raymarine/Garmin, whatever >> apps for Android) and make more money? We the consumer get a platform >> that's much more flexible than what those devices are currently running >> plus access to all these wonderful apps, which would only get better and >> better if there was a hardware environment for them more suitable to the >> marine environment than tablets. The fact that Raymarine now has apps for >> those devices is telling, people are clearly using tablets on their boats. >> I think they have it backwards. Don't bring raymarine to the android >> device. Bring Android to the raymarine device. The marine tech companies >> are in the hardware business first, software is secondary. They should >> stick to their core competency and let the big guys do the software part. >> More frequent updates and bug fixes, a standard user experience regardless >> of manufacturer. The freedom and ability to run all kinds of apps on your >> boat computer (because that's what a chart plotter is). Etc. There's >> already a software environment which means there is demand in the market >> (navionics, mx mariner, opencpn, etc). My feeling is that the software >> companies are going to be able to provide much better apps for us than what >> raymarine and garmin are currently giving us. >> >> Imagine a raymarine computer at your helm, just like their top of the >> line plotter but you can install whatever you want on it and do whatever >> you can currently do with your android device (because it runs android). If >> they wanted to, they could port their chart software to android and sell it >> as an app or provide coupon codes to download it free with the purchase of >> their hardware. Why is Raymarine developing music playing apps and weather >> apps for their proprietary platform? That costs money! and this stuff >> already exists. >> >> Think blackberry. They got it all wrong. Along came Samsung and took the >> entire market (Apple too, but Samsung is #1). If blackberry licensed >> Android before the whole end game thing happened I think they'd still be >> around, and profitable. People liked their platform, sure, but what they >> really liked was their *hardware*. I've played around with the chart >> plotters at the boat show and the chandleries. I wasn't really impressed >> with any of the interfaces. They should continue to build amazing marine >> grade HARDWARE and let the people that know software handle that part. >> >> Someone is going to come along and do this. Personally, I would buy a >> "Marine Tough" android device for the helm before I purchased any purpose >> built plotter. It would do everything that a plotter does plus so much more >> (for those times when you're alongside a dock and want to watch a movie in >> the cockpit or some other frivolous thing like facebook or the C&C mailing >> list ;) ). Hell, install a display down below. >> "Computer. Play movie. Terminator 2." >> And so on. Science fiction had it all figured out with Hal. One central >> computer. >> >> One computer to rule them all and in the dorkness bind them. >> >> I wish I was capable of starting a business like this, I'de do it myself. >> >> Most people have MULTIPLE computers on board. The VHF these days is a >> computer, the laptop at the nav station, the chart plotter, the instrument >> displays .. why?!!! Just give me one CPU running a commonly used platform >> and let the software companies duke it out. Plug in a bunch of dumb >> displays or interactive displays, whatever your budget allows. Hook up all >> your transducers and sensors and you're off to the races. Focus on making >> amazing marine hardware and continue to charge marine prices for it. Stop >> spending money on coders to maintain your proprietary system and MAKE MORE >> MONEY. Or like I said before, turn them into an App department and port >> what they've already got as apps .. FOR SALE! >> >> >> Rambling thoughts on a wednesday night. >> Someone's going to owe me a beer if this happens. >> >> Steve >> Suhana, C&C 32 >> Toronto >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album >> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com >> CnC-List@cnc-list.com >> >> > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > >
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