[APML] Meade Marketing

["Ulrich Beinert" <analemma@gmx.de>]

Returning back to our discussion from last week - I just got my December
S&T, and found the new Meade GPS LX200 series. It's unbelievable that they
actually compare the scope to a "Competing 11" GPS in their ad. It looks
like they checked out what Celestron did, just in order to do it better. Of
course, the beginner has no idea and says "Hey, Meade is better!". Looks
like this is copied off Celestron, but who is suing whom?!? Just consider
that Meade's ETX is nothing more than a copy of the Questar. I've lost all
respect for Meade. I'm selling my ETX.

Ulrich

P.S. I see they write they even have "patents pending on Autostar Easy
Align, system architecture, and GPS alignment procedure". War of the
telescope makers....


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