Re: Garmin overpricing its software
- From: Stichting ST <atarist@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:37:47 +0200
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:26:47 -0600, Educated User <> wrote:
Rule #1 in the world is always...... FOLLOW THE TRAIL OF MONEY.
Garmin became #1 in the market by establishing themselves in sales in
North America (the most powerful economy on the planet). All of the
maps here we have been using have been unlocked. We bought one for
$89 and we need no more install keys or we can install them on as many
GPS units as we can buy.
Reality began to set in. The profit margins on the GPS units is going
down (like cell phone companies selling cell phones). The real money
is in the software. It costs 20 cents to burn and package a CD but
you can sell that for an insane amount of money....big $$$ in profit
margins.
They have just started now in North America locking the maps so you
have to pay for every region you want to view even though you own the
whole North Ameria CD. Why? $$$$$
City and towns very rarely move great distances from 2005-2006. Buy a
really good rural, city, local map CD and the data would be good for
the next 10-15 years. Garmin doesn't like that.
I had a friend recently move to Australia and he took his Garmin with
him. You boys over there are controlled by Garmin and $$$ for unlock
codes. I don't want to really piss you off but take a look into their
BLUECHART scheme:
http://tinyurl.com/nbxfu
This is no citys, no streets, no towns. Add up what it costs to
unlock you maps if you want to use the water around Australia AFTER
you buy the actual CD first:
http://tinyurl.com/qpwo4
They are pissing a lot of people off but their #1 market, North Ameria
is relatively untouched by this price gouging. They are selling the
new "upgrade" CD's with the unlock codes here now and no too many
people have been bitching yet. It's all about the $$$.
Good news is that when someone is #1, every hacker will make them
their target and once the code is broken, the flood gates will open.
Until that time, Garmin is trying to get as many hardware units into
peoples hands as possible before they get taken out.
Microsoft gets hacked and they are a multi billion dollar company.
Garmin is no super power and their day is coming. The thing that they
havent figured out yet is that the quicker you piss off and adjetate
people, the sooner they will target your company and break your
software.
As said above: "Good news is that when someone is #1, every hacker will make
them their target and once the code is broken, the flood gates will open."
At http://cgpsmapper.com/en/main.htm there is software to make Garmin
compatible maps. And upload them to the GPSr.
So the format of the Garmin files is partly decyphered. Only the routing
capabilities are a conundrum at the moment...
Latest news: there is 'MapRoute' doing "Generation of routing data from non
routable maps (this is a generic routing data only - but can be used as a base
for preparing better data)"
Piet
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