"Google Local search, updated fuel prices, white page listings and Garmin's own Ciao! social networking system"? For those services while I'm driving I'd happily pay... uh... nothing.
This proposal strikes me as the kind of thing that emerges from a chain of reasoning that goes something like this:
Alice: "We want to charge $15 a month for this service" Bob: "Nobody will pay $15 for real-time traffic" Alice: "OK, what else can we throw in that uses data?" Bob: "How about some internet stuff? And I hear social networking is big with the kids." Carol: "Um, you do realize nobody wants any of that stuff, right?" Bob & Alice: "This isn't about what people want to buy. It's about what we want to sell."
Hey Garmin: give me real-time optimized routing and I'll pay a few bucks a month. Anything else is just clutter.
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"Google Local search, updated fuel prices, white page listings and Garmin's own Ciao! social networking system"? For those services while I'm driving I'd happily pay... uh... nothing.
This proposal strikes me as the kind of thing that emerges from a chain of reasoning that goes something like this:
Alice: "We want to charge $15 a month for this service"
Bob: "Nobody will pay $15 for real-time traffic"
Alice: "OK, what else can we throw in that uses data?"
Bob: "How about some internet stuff? And I hear social networking is big with the kids."
Carol: "Um, you do realize nobody wants any of that stuff, right?"
Bob & Alice: "This isn't about what people want to buy. It's about what we want to sell."
Hey Garmin: give me real-time optimized routing and I'll pay a few bucks a month. Anything else is just clutter.
From the press release...
"subscription renewal price for data services is $5.00/month."
Just sayin'