I have not ordered them yet and the order won't be thru VANS
I have not ordered them yet and the order won't be thru VANS
Not saying this is not true, but if the announcement is going to happen at OSH, and it then takes a month or 6 weeks to fill the pipeline… that leaves no Garmin panel sales for 2-3 months. that would seem odd to me.
that doesn't sound right. No responsible business would do that. The whole reason they keep this stuff secret is to prervent sales from falling off a cliff as customers delay purchases waiting for the new version. halting orders lets the cat out of the bag, so why wouldn't they just announce it and start taking pre orders on the new stuff?
One scenario is that the old screen has an obsolete part, a last time buy was done, and the new screen program is behind schedule. Can’t build more of the old screen without a large redesign expense, and the new screen is addressing the obsolete parts anyway. So, you just can’t accept any new orders for stuff you can’t build. Management goes nuts.
This would suggest an immediate end to support of the G3X. There would be more than a few people unhappy about this.
A responsible company like garmin does not secretly run out of service parts without telling their customers and giving fair warning.
I agree, the point of my post is that is unlikely.
If the supply chain did in fact dry up, they very well could be holding that last batch specifically for service inventory.
A 1K through hole resistor is also ancient and still made in the millions every year. Just because it is old doesn’t mean it will no longer be made. It is really about demand and whether there is still enough to justify the effort. Many older parts just have limited production runs and the issue is more about purchasing in large volumes as they may only be run a couple times a year.
With CPUs and displays, the rest of industry has moved forward as fabs have moved to smaller feature sizes. Unlike resistors, there's little demand for a 10-year-old processor when a newer faster one can be had for less. This is what happened with the covid car shortages of CPUs. They were forced to upgrade to more modern chipsets.
That would be awesome.
