robertn
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| Quote: | | I'm tending to point out the faults in the hope of shaming Navman into fixing them but I'm not holding my breath. Odd thing is with all the money they must spend on hardware design and marketting, you'd think investing in the software would be obvious |
Unfortunately heres how it works: Navman is ultimately owned by Brunswick, are very large, old school American Multinational that makes pool tables and boats. They know little about making technology, and less about surviving long term in technology markets.
Navman has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. The first iCN630 was world class, at the time no one had a product to compete except Garmins late 90's street pilot. Since then Brunswick took over, took the profits and ran. They have been going backwards faster than the speed of light. Now Brunswick wants to execute it's exit stratagy, and is finding Navman hard to sell and worth far less than they though....... It will be intestesting to see what happens next. They can't sell it, will they but effort into rebuilding it, or will they wind it down?
Navman needs to pull something out the hat, and just another device with a Camera added just does not cut it for me. In the eman time, Buy Navman products, but don't be surprised if the support disappears overnight.
On the other hand, Garmin and Tomtom have remainded focused on building for the long term. Others will come and go, but these two are here to stay. Time will tell with Navman. |
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