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Originally Posted by pesok
i thought i lived in a century where people could read, did i ever say trafic was a new feature? And listening is not the same as voice recognition, try telling bing to find a nearest theater thats opened after 1am - thats the new feature along with automatic street view and price tag of 0 for gps navigator with features not available on any other unit. Yes it was wrong but its a beta and i gave up on searching for "perfect" gps years ago - none of them are or ever will be, but you have to recognise the potential. My point is if tomtom, garmin and others took such a big hit on market after google annouced a raw beta of their navigation software thats only available on droid phones(and only 2.0 officially) what kind of hit can we expect when and if goog anounces a standalone unit with preloaded maps and those features or a free downloadable nav soft for all patforms?
Anyways enough of this, i beleive i made my point and if people want to argue at least read all my previous posts on this matter and not just the last one. This thread was opened to help a fellow ppcgeeker find a free navigation soft and maybe further discussions should be closer to the subject.
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So wait, you're predicting all of these companies go out of business because the stock price went down one day????
as for your searching for theaters open during certain hours- uh, Bing DOES do that. Bing lists all the theaters in your area, and you can search movies by start time if you want. This is nothing new.
You know, just about all of the features you are talking about are available in any standard GPS app. Tom Tom is also online with current and live info- and offline. Heck, even Sprint Navigation is online with current and live info. And it's even free on most Sprint plans these days. How many people have Sprint navigator and still have another GPS app?
My prediction is based on history- google navigation probably won't put anyone out of business. If they give it away, then everyone else will offer features that make people want to pay for theirs instead. And if the stock price drops other investors will look to pick it up while it's cheap.