John, Exactly. You bought a device, it had maps on it. You can now choose to upgrade or not to upgrade those maps on the device when they become available. If you do not choose to upgrade the device will continue to work the way it was sold to you.
Now I buy a device, lets call it an iPhone. I then purchase an app called Seeing Eye from a company called Sendero. I pay $100 for the app. time goes by. Lets say for the sake of argument that its 3 years later. In the interim I have lost my job, the stock market has crashed and the bank has taken my house back. I have a job interview and want to use this app to find my way to it. I turn it on and low and behold they want another $100 in order for me to use it. In other words I have rented the app for 3 years and now its useless to me. To my small mind this is not good business. I would go so far as to call it extortion. If I am going to pay that high a price for something I damned well want to own it. I do not know what Garmon is going to do with map updates. Whether they are going to be free or not is besides the point. I bought Navigon. It will work the way it is until I get rid of the device, IOS changes so drasticallyy that it no longer is supported or something else better comes along to replace it. The choice is mine, not theirs. Again, these are my opinions and my thoughts. I by no means condemn those of you who have the money to waste on this type of business plan. I guess I am just a bit more frugal than most. Keith On Mar 2, 2013, at 2:21 PM, john gallagher <[email protected]> wrote: > hi there keith interesting but say on my sendero on the apex because the maps > are actually on the machine even though they will not get updated they will > still work and yes cost is important for blind people as we have to pay much > more for our devices and of course the software. am i correct in saying that > with navigon there updates are free. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
