Let's be real, Whistler v1 wasn't doing much of anything other than reselling GRE's designs after acquiring them. Little to no actual innovation, except to maybe add a keypad to one or two models iirc? So yeah, comparing their "failed attempt" at the actual work Uniden and Paul Opitz put into designing, engineering, and bringing the SDS models to life is apples and frankfurters. Many of us believe that Whistler's announcement of an SDR based scanner in the works was a lame and failed plot to take away from Uniden's rollout of the SDS series.
Anyway, let's see what (if anything) Whistler v2 brings to the table, or if this is just another rehash of Whistler v1 where they're going to do nothing but continue to sell 20 year old GRE designs as long as it's profitable. There are quite a lot of GRE fanboys who will continue to spend too much money on largely outdated designs, so I'm sure they'll have no trouble moving inventory.