my understanding concerning Active Capt use of Adobe Flash player and IOS that prevents running the charts but the data itself can be used. So on my Iphone I get AC though Navionic a paid stand alone App. but I cant display the AC Charts directly from their website though Safari or Google.
As to why put out this stand alone program which is essentially a on line topical Guide, I imagine someone down the line see a market for a marine social network like WAZE or FaceBook and the ecard data collection that goes with it. I'll keep it for a couple of weeks. Maybe it has a utility that hasent revealed itself as of yet, but your right Larry if a user has another program with AC they don't need this,as well.