GPS market at 3yr turning point

investment news -
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080425/gps_challenge.html


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"If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something." - Steven Wright

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Profits are down so they blame saturation? That's a laugh. I'm very
pleased with my TomTom as a device but not as far as value for money
goes. I feel cheated, they unit has the potential to deliver far more
(it only requires software for heaven's sake!) and yet it doesn't.

With satnav appearing on so many other devices the dedicated unit will
have to bundle a whole load of new features to compete.

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Regards,

Geoff Berrow

If it only needs some software, why not beat TomTom to it and write your own
program? You could even sell a few copies and get paid for your time.

Pawlowski contained the following:


Though I do write web development software I don't think my skills are
sufficient to write apps for the Tom Tom. But the TomTom does run on
Linux and the open tom project is producing apps for the device.

http://www.opentom.org/Main_Page

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Geoff Berrow

"We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends."
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

ps56k wrote:
Bought GRMN stock in 2006,
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GRMN ,
guess should have sold at the Nov 2007 peak xmas season...
Own an old Garmin 12 used for outdoors hiking, geocaching, etc
along with a new Nuvi 260 for the car trips.

here's the latest - about upcoming Garmin earnings.
http://www.fool.com/investing/international/2008/04/29/foolish-forecast-tuning-in-to-garmin.aspx