According to a repot put out by the NPD Group, PND sales are expected to gain about 8 percent this holiday buying season compared to last year. That's the good news. The bad news is that average selling prices are down 25% this year, meaning revenue will actually fall 16 percent.
Fletch, they get what they pay for, full of bugs and poor routing but most people looking at only a price tag deserves nothing less.
How does on expect GPS manufacturers to keep producing quality products when they don't allow them to make a profit while producing these excellent products?
I would say this is the reason why Garmin, TomTom and Magellan all having more issues and building cheaper PND units to meet demands of pricing only.
Fletch, how about writing about MSN and Garmin, that is a big news since sliced bread
What about Google and their free GPS app?
These things are overpriced to begin with. I'll refrain from calling most crap. But when you have units that STILL can't get right what side of the street a business is on(even $2,000 car navs still suck), and have routing problems, and map makers that have 5 yr outdated goddamn maps, I have no problem paying $69 over $400. You'll need it to buy all the freakin map updates that they should have gotten right from the beginning.
I think it's a scam. Intentionally leave addresses out and add them later to claim more updates.