Listen. I don't know about tomtom, but Garmin has had this coming for years. They charge SO MUCH for map updates, every year its $100. And the maps aren't that great for that price. I live in Minniapolis, and they never even offered an update that knew our major freeway fell into the Mississippi river, rendering all their GPS's broken, for a year. It'll lead you down roads that never actually were built. Twice I have been dropped literally in a corn field. Their update process is a DRM encumbered web-based usb driver browser plugin nightmare. Their phone book only knows about bad chain restaurants.
They have had this market cornered, and they never ran with the ball. Now they got eclipsed, and all I can say is, its about time. I have 0 sympathy.
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Listen. I don't know about tomtom, but Garmin has had this coming for years. They charge SO MUCH for map updates, every year its $100. And the maps aren't that great for that price. I live in Minniapolis, and they never even offered an update that knew our major freeway fell into the Mississippi river, rendering all their GPS's broken, for a year. It'll lead you down roads that never actually were built. Twice I have been dropped literally in a corn field. Their update process is a DRM encumbered web-based usb driver browser plugin nightmare. Their phone book only knows about bad chain restaurants.
They have had this market cornered, and they never ran with the ball. Now they got eclipsed, and all I can say is, its about time. I have 0 sympathy.