Let me make it clear one last time,
My old TomTom application symbian Sony Ericsson P series DID tell me where the static cameras were. It DID NOT warn me of Mobile cameras and yes I did purchase the camera add on.
If you are not planning a route to avoid cameras why would anyone want to see them? If you plan a route then the TomTom will tell you if there are cameras on it!
You know as well as I do routes were planned for natural flow and efficiency if there was a steep hill with no cameras my transport manager would NOT have included it on that basis so I just do not see why it is such and advantage IMHO it simply would not enter into anyone’s route planning?
Are TomTom are missing out on a lot of potential sales?
Possibly but to simply keep quoting the difference in Android and Apple user base is not proving any point at all, It is simply outlining an effect of their decision not the reasoning behind it.
Until those who want TomTom on their Android devices understand or are told what TomTom’s “reasoning” is they are simply peeing in the wind.
When I packed in driving, I moved in to technical sales and finally into online application design, whilst I am not a code cutter my understanding of applications development is quite good.
Whether you like Apple or not (Personally I am not a fan for the reasons I have given) it is impossible to ignore the fact that the iPhone is still the benchmark by which all other smartphones are judged you only have to read the tech press every time a new Android device is launched they do not compare it to the last Android device its always “Is this an iPhone killer”.
I cannot of course be certain but I think my point is logical when TomTom started to look at other platforms to run TomTom upon, I think IOS would have been a natural choice for them it only ran on one manufacturers hardware, just like their own dedicated devices this is a very important plus point for any development it makes setting certain parameters much simpler and they would only ever have to make it work with one UI again a very important indicator when making a decision on which platform you develop upon.
Until Android becomes a more unified platform this kind of disparity with products like TomTom will I suspect continue, Google themselves realise this is critical hence ICS, but the fact is Android is an open system and open systems do not always make the best bedfellows for products that require a cohesive operating environment to run at their best.
