Daryl Walford <dwalford@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Daryl Walford <dwalford@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>> Snapper wrote
>>>> Who of you owns a GPS, or more specifically a car navigator?
>>>> Tom Tom, a Netherlands based company has re****ted 80 percent
>>>> reduction in revenue. One of the reasons cited is that while prices
>>>> have dropped, volume of sales hasn't increased in pro****tion to
>>>> maintain profit levels. This is because the market is probably
>>>> saturated, an analyst said.
>>> I've thought about buying one several times but every time I've
dismissed the idea because I wouldn't use it often
>>> enough to justify the cost.
>> There's plenty in the <$200 now.
> Which is still considerably more than a street directory.
And a hell of a lot more useful than a street directory too.
In spades when you are the only person in the car.
>>> My job takes me to all over Melbourne but I still can't see the value
in a Navigator when a Melways for a tenth of
>>> the price and works just as well.
>> It doesnt work anything like as well.
> It does if you already know your way around pretty well,
Wrong, as always.
> after 30+ years of driving around Melbourne for work I can find any
suburb without looking in the directory,
Pity about getting to the exact address once you are in that suburb.
> I do use it to find individual streets but thats not difficult to do.
Its a hell of a lot more convenient to have it take you to the exact
address.
So your silly claim that that street directory 'works just as well' is
mindlessly silly.
> The exception would be if you were in very unfamiliar territory, like
being interstate then a navigator would very
> useful,
Or you dont visit the particular suburb very often.
> if I often drove interstate then I would buy one.
And anyone with a clue who goes to addresses that they havent
been to before often, does that even if they dont drive interstate much.
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