Before I go my rant, the new G-series panel 8512-9512 is the real meat and potato of the line. So far those panels seem to be working out good.
Too little, too late for Bosch. I highly doubt they are going to pull the Honeywell/DSC local alarm guys to the B-Series line. I don't think they are going to invest the time and resources to learn RPS, when they swap out it out with a low cost wireless system like Honeywell, 2GIG, DSC. They released the B-Series in 2013, why now would they release it everyone on the street (Tri-Ed & Scansource)? It's once thing when you lunch the panel with this coming in but 3 years later? This doesn't effect us much at all because we hardly use the B-Series panel. I can throw in a Vista 21 IP and get Total Connect in half the time it takes to program and setup a 5512 panel. Don't get me started on how horrible Wyless is. (Wyless is the third party company running the cell cards for Bosch). If we have a Bosch system, we force the client to get a POTS line just so we can use RPS. That's how unreliable Wyless is. The smartphone app is a joke compared to Total Connect. Way behind in wireless sensors in this portion of the market.
Bosch has been behind since the purchase of DS/Radionics back in 2001. For years they did nothing to update the line at all. They lost a lot of dealers to DMP and Honeywell. We chose Honeywell for our residential/light commercial while still using Bosch for large installations and Fire Alarm Systems. Back in the 90s we standardized on the G-Series panels. Whether it was a high school , level 4 Federal building or Mrs. Smith down the street, every alarm panel was the 9000 series. Bosch lost some market share even before B-Series so this move isn't going to move the needle.