Garmin acquires European Navigon maker of GPS receivers

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/garmin-acquires-a-rival-car-navigation-company/?ref=technology

PeterM wrote:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/garmin-acquires-a-rival-car-navigation-company/?ref=technology

I wonder why they did that. I've been pretty unimpressed with my Navigon-5
software.

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On 6/15/2011 6:14 PM EDT, Mike Coon wrote:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/garmin-acquires-a-rival-car-navigation-company/?ref=technology

I believe Navigon has stronger business relations with the European auto
and mobile vendors which would open and/or allow greater penetration of
the European OEM markets for Garmin.

On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:14:01 +0100, Mike Coon wrote:

Brand recognition elsewhere, probably. It surely isn't for the IP that
they put into their devices...

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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/garmin-acquires-a-rival-car-navigation-company/?ref=technology

Probably they are thinking abouot market share and its control. We are still
lacking decision about plans regarding PNAs.

I've been pretty unimpressed with my Navigon-5

What a device was it? Now the is Navigon 7.5 and the maps are a lot better.
Especially maps of the Western Europe, even more so Germany. Anyway, Navigon
is making them for approximately 20 years.