Now its time for ShipTrax which is as addictive as RadarBox
No, it isn't time for ShipTrax. At least, it shouldn't be?
I didn't buy an aviation related product, to be continually told that the clearing of known issues were on hold until a totally new non-aviation product was launched, considerably later than initially promised.
Whilst part of me sympathises with your desires to enter into the nautical market, I find it remarkably naive to keep using this excuse to block development of an existing product.
I work for a very succesful US owned semiconductor manufacturer, some end products of which will undoubtedly be within the "guts" of everyones laptop/pc and even RadarBox of everyone on this forum.
We serve two distinct customer product bases - analogue products and discrete products.
I really hate to think what one set of customers would do if they were told, "sorry guys, it's time for analogue! We're only going to look at developing discrete products once we've sorted out our desires in the analogue market".
That is effectively what you are implying above.
Both sets of customers should be catered for at the same time.If they can't, then I think we're looking at a distinct lack of resource available to maintain a stable platform for RadarBox to grow from?
To be honest, this is nothing more than simple business common sense.
We don't even have two sets of customers here, as we only have one product!
Unfortunately MLAT gets drawn into this debate - it's inevitable, especially as you've implied it is on the horizon? however, it's not really the core issue.
It may sound harsh, but to abandon your existing customer base, on the whim of a new untried product, is akin to committing commercial suicide.
