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Originally Posted by Robby
That's ridiculous!
What you're saying is like suggesting that whomever invented the automobile, that every other manufacturer of automobiles (including all the British car companies) are "fake products."
The reality is, and I don't care how much anybody wants to spin any of this, is that MyLaps is trying to create a monopoly by cornering the market.
AMB/MyLaps have repeated tried to increase the cost involved in using their products - from discontinuing "handout-out/club" transponders (with the introduction of the original "personal transponders 6 or 7 years ago, to the introduction of their smaller 2-wire transponders 2 years ago (to compete with the smaller MRTs), and now with their 3-wire transponders (I can't keep up with all the names you guys are assigning to the models - purcy, harry, etc.) and corresponding RC4 decoder intended to kick MRT out of the game entirely.
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Erm, your comparing it wrongly.... a car drives on a road, no one company has road building for the globe, so there is a set standard that is generally smooth, has corners and mostly black, so all manufacturers make cars to run on that..... Now, pay attention, MyLaps make a system which they support to accurately record times triggered by bugs. They design a digital bug that goes across it, triggers it correctly and records a Unique ID...... MRT have taken a Red PT, copied 95% of it (maybe more). They have taken MyLaps design to be able to make something to work on a MyLaps system, so in effect, they have copied it. Now, MyLaps have no need/requirement/social responsibility to support MRT. I doubt that MyLaps really see MRT as an issue or problem, simple as that.
I think people got to get it out of their minds that MyLaps are forcing MRT out, conspiracies etc, as really, if you look at it, MRT are the ones that copied MyLaps and are now falling foul of it. Maybe, as well as shouting at MyLaps to reduce their PT costs, we should do the same to MRT to support their product which is now being forced out of market??
But, as I say above, Mylaps is the original, MRT is a very good copy, but that is all it is, a Copy, I am sure if someone started selling a phone that operated on iPhone software without Apples authority, they would be in deep doo doo...