Is Speco OEMing Dahua? [Yes]

I personally don't get it. It gets really terrible when you go to Apple's App store and search for different manufacturers. Take DW for instance, I get about 8 different apps that come up and they all look different. The thing I don't understand is that DW has their Spectrum App and then they also advertise Nx's rebranded Spectrum App. DW's has for features but has one of the WORST GUI's I have used Nx's designed version is way better but has more limited features. It would be much better to work together since one of the companies knows how to design a phone GUI and one doesn't.

That's one thing I like about the Pro Audio market. Take Shure or Symetrix or almost any of the trusted brands in pro audio. All the software is generally the same or similar with almost nothing new to learn. Symetrix uses similar software across all platforms so moving from one to the other simply has expanded features, but you aren't learning something completely foreign. Yamaha digital mixing consoles have basically used the same interface design and refined it. You can go from their older large format analog consoles to their newest and see similarities in design.

I almost wish that the same thing held true with surveillance companies. It's very hard to keep everything consistent when you don't have your own R&D. Even the bottom of the audio market, Behringer, is making decent products. They would be like Dahua or Hikvision but their software is much more refined for the most part. They were smart though. They copied many other companies designs made them cheaper, got a lot of money in the band, started Music Group, and bought almost every top tier brand in the pro audio market. Now they have multiple R&D departments to borrow designs from to carry out in their lower end products.