Comments on: GPS Feature Wish List http://blog.payne.org/2009/02/24/gps-feature-wish-list/ Working to improve the signal-to-noise ratio Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:16:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: John http://blog.payne.org/2009/02/24/gps-feature-wish-list/comment-page-1/#comment-567 John Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:52:31 +0000 http://blog.payne.org/?p=159#comment-567 That's a good list on the Wiki Andy. You're right; someone will have to "iPhone" this market, because there's no evidence that the existing players know how to do it. When I talked with the people at TomTom, it was clear that they were too bound by the limitations of their existing platform to innovate quickly. Also, they are very focused on "convergence" -- MP3 and other extraneous capabilities features, rather than making navigation simple and fun. And the convergence is happening in the other direction, i.e. away from them and towards the smartphone as the primary device. That’s a good list on the Wiki Andy. You’re right; someone will have to “iPhone” this market, because there’s no evidence that the existing players know how to do it.

When I talked with the people at TomTom, it was clear that they were too bound by the limitations of their existing platform to innovate quickly. Also, they are very focused on “convergence” — MP3 and other extraneous capabilities features, rather than making navigation simple and fun. And the convergence is happening in the other direction, i.e. away from them and towards the smartphone as the primary device.

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