Jeremy posted this morning about Garmin charging $70 to update the maps on his Nuvi to the latest & greatest maps. As I talked about before, I believe Apple is aiming to make the iPhone the premiere mapping device and here Garmin is giving users another reason to ditch their devices.
Additionally, do most consumers really [...]
Entries Tagged as 'iphone'
Another reason GPS devices are in trouble…
June 16th, 2008 ·
Tags: Gadgets · iphone · mobile
Apple + PA Semi. Is Apple gearing up to take on Nokia?
June 12th, 2008 ·
Steve Jobs to John Markoff:
PA Semi is going to do system-on-chips for iPhones and iPods
I blogged about the acquisition here and my speculation about the purpose of the acquisition is confirmed by the Jobs quote (if you believe that he is honest here). A couple of interesting things here:
The success of TI in the 1990s [...]
Tags: apple · iphone · semiconductors
New iPhone - it’s the platform stupid
June 9th, 2008 ·
Steve Jobs may or may not announce a new iPhone today and that’s important but it almost does not matter because the real power of the iPhone is the SDK and apps that get built on it. Apple has effectively turned the iPhone into a developer platform and that has a tremendous multiplier effect on the value [...]
