On 5 Feb, 03:18, Passin' thru ... wrote:
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 12:53:59 -0800 (PST), NickTheBatMan
wrote:
On 4 Feb, 01:27, "Ed M." wrote:
More on the NAV4ALL shutdown mentioned at the end of the BBC story:
http://www.gpsbusinessnews.com/Nav4a...lames-NAVTEQ_a....
" . . . the trend shown at Nokia-NAVTEQ and TomTom-Tele Atlas is a bit
worrying for the rest of the industry. The step by step integration of
Tele Atlas into TomTom and the free navigation offer from Nokia is
starting to create market distortions. . . . *Looking at it from a
broader perspective, it seems the two map makers are slowly but surely
sliding away from the promises made to the European Commission two
years ago when their acquisitions were investigated by the anti-trust
authority. One day or another Brussels could have a second look at
it."
http://www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk/Featu...irst_blood_in_....
"A free version of Ovi Maps for 10 handsets has turned the navigation
industry on its head. The question yet to be answered is exactly how
Nokia will make up the losses on its old mapping revenue (if indeed
there ever was much revenue from its pay-as-you-use pricing models)."
And now it's getting out there everywhere...
Thishttp://www.redferret.net/?p=18498is an interesting piece that
makes it quite plain that Garmin could well be in trouble because of
their reliance on Navteq which of course is Wholly Nokia owned !!!
Interesting times ahead...
The best being that Garmin's map prices should plummet to almost free if
The problem is that they pay the maps to Navteq
they hope to stay afloat. If not, then all pre-existing map products of
theirs will just become world-wide public domain data eventually. Their
Public domain?