Please tell me that someone did the required research for this topic. Did anyone go online and see if the countries that this is being implemented in were actually supported by Google Maps Navigation, or are we just bashing a company based on our ethnocentric belief that all countries have access to Google Nav? Just curious...
This was my first thought when I read this. I checked to see if this was the case, and according to Google, many places in Europe and Asia have support for GMaps with turn-by-turn Navigation. Hmm.
If they are doing this to add navigation functionality where it still isn't available (many places I checked appears it already is available with turn-by-turn) whether it's free or not, I think that's a good thing!
If there is no FREE navigation available as of now, I'm sure people who would like to use it would gladly pay for it (at a reasonable price, of course). I know I would!
This also is a good thing for us who currently use GMaps for free. TomTom no doubt will have a lot more features, and that would most certainly entice Google to up their game, don't you think?
IIRC, didn't TomTom used to be on Palm and WinMo, but it was pirated so much that TomTom decided to make their own device? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember something along those lines. I really don't think HTC will disable GMaps on phones that already have it. IMO, Android is what made HTC who they are today. So, to go against Google (which helped HTC grow substantially) would be shooting themselves in the foot!
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