Re: [APML] Meade Marketing

["Andy Wallace" <andywallace@home.com>]

Ulrich-

In this country (USA), this is called "bidness" :-) These "hardball" tactics
are commonplace in the computer, chip fabrication  and software industries.
Most glaring example--Zerox developed the GUI, then had it "borrowed" by
Apple, who then had it "borrowed" by Microsoft who, after many vicious
lawsuits back and forth and with some very aggressive marketing, has emerged
the most valuable corporation on the planet.

Andy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ulrich Beinert" <analemma@gmx.de>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 7:45 AM
Subject: [APML] Meade Marketing


> 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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