GRMN up over 50% YTD and raised guidance at the 10/30 earnings call. While I am on board with your view, they must be selling drugs because the results are easily beating all expectations.
Well, after all, they do have more going on than just the InReach. Might be a buyout coming, never know.
This is a good point. They own the marine market and I’m sure several other markets but they seem to be dying one at a time.
You sending pictures?
I am sending messages every time I absolutely need to instead of only when I happen to meet Apple’s limited criteria for when they will allow me.
Seen the price on some of the Livescope set ups? Haha
Had to look it up. I am 100% sure it wouldn't make me a better fisherman. The smart watches aren't cheap either. All I can say is why would anyone buy one of those?
Seems you buried the lede a little.
Actually, it wasn’t useful in that one instance either come to think of it. Trying to get in touch with hunting partners to help track while I was down in a bowl with bad satellite coverage. Had trouble getting inreach messages out. Was able to get Apple messages out but my buddies never got them since their phones were on airplane mode. Inreach eventually did it but took awhile.
One thing I noted in the reviews is that the iPhone tells you it can’t get a signal and to reposition. Garmin doesn’t do this until the message isn’t able to be sent 20min later. This is what I mean when I say the garmin device user interface is horrible. I view it as the equivalent of working with Jeffrey “The Dude”Lebowski. The user has no idea of what it is working on, or if it is doing anything at all.
I had the opposite experience this fall. I was able to both send and receive messages vis the iPhone satellite messaging. If/when I was expecting a message back, I found it worked best to reconnect to the satellite every so often to see if a message came through. There was often a delay, for sure. But it did work for me.
It’s two way communication. I sat texted a lot this fall. It works fine.
