The beauty of such a company like navteq being independent is the neutrality of it's data being on any device it's willing to sell to. I'm pretty sure that nokia will pretty much limit what their competitors and customers do with the data....many of their direct competitors who used to use navteq maps won't have access to it, or will switch away to other databases that are less desirable.
Actually Nokia will probably *still* sell the data to finance the development of the maps. Otherwise they would bankrupt the company by removing the financing that created it in the first place! No, Nokia will not stop selling the data but perhaps offer preferential treatment and premium content for "free" to Nokia users :)
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Am i the only one who sees this as a bad thing?
The beauty of such a company like navteq being independent is the neutrality of it's data being on any device it's willing to sell to. I'm pretty sure that nokia will pretty much limit what their competitors and customers do with the data....many of their direct competitors who used to use navteq maps won't have access to it, or will switch away to other databases that are less desirable.
Teleatlas + TomTom
Navteq + Nokia
Sad...
Actually Nokia will probably *still* sell the data to finance the development of the maps. Otherwise they would bankrupt the company by removing the financing that created it in the first place! No, Nokia will not stop selling the data but perhaps offer preferential treatment and premium content for "free" to Nokia users :)