I understand that Ovi Maps is not quite ready for primetime on the N900. Maybe one of the reasons they postponed the launch?
K
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Mark Haury <wolfmane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10384544-265.html?tag=nl.e703
Finally, a navigation solution for handhelds that really works. As soon
as T-Mobile comes out with an Android 2.0 phone that I like, it's
sayonara to the piece of crap TomTom I bought a couple of months ago
(I'm on the third unit with a defective battery and am not going to
bother sending this one in - I'll replace the battery myself - but
that's just scratching the surface of all the horrible design problems.
I incorrectly assumed that TomTom had been around long enough to figure
out how to make a gpsr, but I should have stuck with Garmin) as well as
my Nokia tablet that never really did anything well and is now dying an
ugly death due to corrupt and probably failing internal flash memory.
Maybe this will force the standalone gps manufacturers to bring the map
update prices down to something approaching reasonable. Or even run them
all out of business, which they so richly deserve after all these years
of highway robbery. 95% of the map data they get for free from
governments and other free and public sources, at least 4% of it is
corrections from their own consumers who have paid dearly for maps, and
_maybe_ 1% of it is obtained in-house. And since at least 95% of any
given map update is identical to the old map, it's absurd to assert that
they have any real financial investment in it. It's a racket very like
the printer manufacturers who sell some printers near and sometimes even
below cost, but make such extremely high profit margins on the ink and
toner that they could give the printers away for free and it wouldn't
make any difference. Can you say "at least 6000% profit"?!?!? (Except
the GPS manufacturers are making a very healthy profit on the hardware
as well.)
Mark
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