Good points, but in today's world where equipment can easily be flashed to the latest software release, I wonder if there could be some advantage to coming in second that wasn't there a few years ago. I get it if the hardware is done...too much R&D money invested to change that quickly. But software is much more nimble.
In any way, I'm hopeful that we'll see Minelab's new release of whatever, soon, and if the Nokta Makro release will be that impactful on the lineup.