[cycomanic]

That's a weird argument. System integration is a significant amount of work. To get any data in and out of these high speed dac/ADCs requires significant man hours (several months to years) of rf, system, fpga and systems engineers. These scopes typically have some pretty hefty fpgas in them as well. All That comes at a significant cost (and those ADCs are not cheap either).

It's sort of like saying CPUs are the were all the hard work for computers is, so they should get all the money (not the motherboards, GPU and especially not software). That's just not how the economics of these things go.