TomTom CTO - GO 1000 Will Support Custom POIs Next Year

mikealder · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 10:01 pm Post subject:

The similarity with the Start/ Ease, XL IQ-2 and the Go-1000 is the lack of support for third Party POI files when the devices launched.

Indeed the XL IQ-2 has had an update to enable the POI menu options unlike the Start/ Ease, whether this was due to poor sales figures or something else we will never know.

The big difference between the new kid on the block and installing third party POI files is the system used to deliver the files to the actual navigation device. Unless the new version of Home is modified to include such capability it simply isn't possible - Mike

akajonnyg · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 03, 2006 Posts: 3

Are TomTom mad? 3rd Party POI's "Non critical"?
They have certainly lost one sale.
GET A GRIP TOMTOM!

mrg2003

I haven't bought a PNA for a few years and am thinking of upgrading.
Which current models supports 3rd party POI?
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tomsk2 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 08, 2009 Posts: 4

TomTom are clearly costing the no third party POI strategy against their own subscription database.
If they make more money selling their own product then third party POI support will stay withdrawn.
This may work short term for them as unsuspecting people buy their new product line but as people cotton on to the "closed shop" attitude fewer will buy TomTom devices so fewer will need TomTom's subscription service.
It would seem that they have given the money men until "sometime 2011" to make a decision on their final business strategy.
Personally I feel the lack of third party POI support can only harm the company in the long term.
F.C.

DeLorean · Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:11 am Post subject:

It’s a scientific fact that globally IQ’s are falling Wink

TomTom are masters at product marketing!

Obviously they’re adapting their products to keep inline with this change in human development.

Ugg….ugg….

Laughing

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Guivre46 · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 11:10 am Post subject:

....and a bit of consumer research. No market, no sales.
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lsainsbury · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 2:27 pm Post subject:

Until it's proven that the new models have the facility for Joe Public to install custom POIs, I won't be upgrading my 550.

If anything does happen to it, then I will most certianly be purchasing another manufacturer's model.

This is a complete farce by TomTom. It's not just about speed cameras - what about all those other great POIs out there.
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DeLorean · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:20 pm Post subject:

mikeprytherch · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 04, 2005 Posts: 28

I've been in software development for over 20 years, and whilst I hate the idea of no custom POI's (due to this I will not purchase a new Tom Tom by the way), I have a lot of sympathy for what the CTO says.

Its not just a case of a developer quickly developing something, the whole process of design/developing/testing/documenting/translation the PND itself, TomTom Home and Server tools that support all of this is a pretty large job.

Over the years the companies/teams I have worked in have had to leave functionality out because of time pressures or stuff just taking longer than expected, however what worries me is that in my experience, stuff that's left out rarely gets put back, lets hope for TT do what they say and put it back in.

lsainsbury · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 7:41 am Post subject:

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