Why should we pay £18 a year for an app lacking so many features?
PrivateerUK
Posts: 378 [Supreme Pioneer]
Dear TomTom,
My TomTom GO Mobile (iOS) app will be 3 years old on 14 March 2019, yet in those 3 years the development of the app has been slow and many features that were in its predecessor have still not been ported over it.
It does appear that TomTom has lost interest in the TomTom GO Mobile (iOS) app. So why should we pay £18 a year for an app lacking so many features?
Furthermore, TomTom's lack of development of this app indicates that TomTom has lost interest in the SatNav market as a whole so why should we buy any of TomTom's products?
Regards,
My TomTom GO Mobile (iOS) app will be 3 years old on 14 March 2019, yet in those 3 years the development of the app has been slow and many features that were in its predecessor have still not been ported over it.
It does appear that TomTom has lost interest in the TomTom GO Mobile (iOS) app. So why should we pay £18 a year for an app lacking so many features?
Furthermore, TomTom's lack of development of this app indicates that TomTom has lost interest in the SatNav market as a whole so why should we buy any of TomTom's products?
Regards,
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robpzx6
Posts: 4 [Master Traveler]
Hi,
I have to agree with you. I have used TomTom as my Satnav since first having a Go300 quite a number of years ago now, I moved from that to the original TomTom app for iphone and changed to Go Mobile when it came out - I too have my unlimited Nav ending soon - on 16/3/19.
I have a car that has Apple Car Play, so ideally prefer to use Satnav via that - the car also has built in Satnav, but it's terrible in comparison to TomTom, so i never use that!
I travel between 25-30000 miles a year and always have the TomTom on to keep me updated with traffic even when I know where I'm going. It's a real shame that TomTom haven't yet got this feature sorted.
I tried out Google maps on it yesterday on a 300 mile round trip & found it works much the same as TomTom, navigating me around traffic and warning of speed cameras - and it's free!
It really has made me think twice about why I need to spend the money with TomTom when I still have to use it on my phone and not via carplay.
It would be nice if TomTom would actually come out with a date for when it'll be released to work with Carplay - I imagine there's a large amount of us who had the 3 year deal for moving over from the old app and with technology moving on whilst the app appears to stand still, TomTom may lose a lot of users who've been loyal to the brand for many years :-(
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I have to agree with you. I have used TomTom as my Satnav since first having a Go300 quite a number of years ago now, I moved from that to the original TomTom app for iphone and changed to Go Mobile when it came out - I too have my unlimited Nav ending soon - on 16/3/19.
I have a car that has Apple Car Play, so ideally prefer to use Satnav via that - the car also has built in Satnav, but it's terrible in comparison to TomTom, so i never use that!
I travel between 25-30000 miles a year and always have the TomTom on to keep me updated with traffic even when I know where I'm going. It's a real shame that TomTom haven't yet got this feature sorted.
I tried out Google maps on it yesterday on a 300 mile round trip & found it works much the same as TomTom, navigating me around traffic and warning of speed cameras - and it's free!
It really has made me think twice about why I need to spend the money with TomTom when I still have to use it on my phone and not via carplay.
It would be nice if TomTom would actually come out with a date for when it'll be released to work with Carplay - I imagine there's a large amount of us who had the 3 year deal for moving over from the old app and with technology moving on whilst the app appears to stand still, TomTom may lose a lot of users who've been loyal to the brand for many years :-(
Interesting to note - if you go for renewal on the android app/login - it's only £14.99 and at least that works with Mydrive.
I'm currently looking about at the free and alternative apps
I’ve been loyal to the TomTom iOS app since it first hit the App Store, but my three year fee trial (because that’s what it was, let’s be honest) is about to end, and having tried Google Maps navigation, I see absolutely no reason whatsoever to pay for further TomTom subscriptions.
It’s not really about CarPlay for me, because I don’t have the relevant hardware (though would have invested in it if TomTom supported it - as per a direct request to them a few years ago).
No, I simply don’t see a single advantage that warrants paying for a subscription now that data is so cheep.
I might change my mind on this when travelling abroad. Especially if we leave the EU, and return to the old days of roaming charges from hell...
Route planning within TT Go is far away from TT MyDrive. So I navigate with both parallel -MyDrive to verify the best route with ALL traffic and to calculate alternative routes correctly and Go for steering.
You can download maps for offline in google maps. Personally, Waze is the best compromise at the moment.