I know, and actually I meant Lowrance, not Loran (my bad). I was looking at these companies from a general consumer perspective, not any specialized or technical field. In the general consumer field, neither of those companies has the name recognition that Garmin and Magellan do, and therefore they wouldn’t be as likely to survive (in that market). In their niche market, I have no doubt they would continue on with no problems.
I don’t know about Lowrance’s ground units but thier marine stuff is quite impressive. The new HD sonar w/ side scan is sweet, and you can link in a radar dome, onboard fuel / engine diagnostics, it even picks up XM/Sirius sat. radio too. Probably a little more than your typical ground based Geo-cacher would use. If I had a bigger boat I’d look at Furuno products too.