Originally Posted by
whitrzac
The point is that AMB/mylaps has a monopoly on the transponder market for most forms of racing(1/1, foot, bike, etc) They can charge whatever they want for transponders and people will have to buy them.
They're not 'expensive' in whatever form of racing the transponder was made for, but they are grossly overpriced compared to the price of the components.
The big issue is that they are not serviceable. You only need one transponder to race, but moving that transponder between cars will break the wires in a short time.
IMO, it's no different than having to buy all the same brand esc, motor, battery, etc to race. And then that brand doubles the price on all of their products.
Novak tried something similar with with the early havok systems(they only work with novak motors), it failed miserably.
Why? Because no one else is willing to invest the time and money to develop a competing product? How is that MyLaps fault? What is MyLaps doing to ensure that they have a monopoly on the market? They're not stopping anyone from developing their own scoring system are they? There are others out there now, we all know that. Trouble is, well....they suck to be honest, compared to MyLaps/AMB.