The personal navigation device (PND: e.g. TomTom Go; Garmin i5 & nuvi; Magellan RoadMate) market is only 10% penetrated so says Peter Friedland, Managing Director of Soleil Group, a research division of Bain Capital. Friedland noted that 12 million PNDs will be sold in 2006: 2 million in the US; 10 million in Europe. Only 5 million were sold in 2005. By comparison with other hot sellers in the consumer electronics market, Apple sold 14 million iPods in 2005.
By 2010, Gartner’s Thilo Koslowski, VP and Lead Automotive Practice Leader, expects the PND market to grow to 30 million units with Asia/Pacific having the highest growth rate. By contrast, also by 2010, 497 million cellular phones will be GPS or A-GPS enabled compared with only 110 million today.
by Joe Francica on 12/05 at 04:14 PM |
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From the Navigation USA 2006 Conference (sponsored by TelematicsUpdate.com) in San Jose, CA…
"Navigation is a feature masquarading as an industry." Jim Nardulli, gate5/Nokia
"We refer to it as the device formerly known as the cell phone." Christian Bubenheim, VP Product Marketing, Motorola , when speaking about a new line cell phones that also act as a personal portable navigation devices, which may also have other features like an MP3 or video player.
by Joe Francica on 12/05 at 01:54 PM |
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As someone pointed out recently, you never know if a podcast will be valuable until you listen to it… So, if you don’t have time to listen to this week’s a Very Spatial podcast, I’ll share the interesting tidbit I found. The interview was with Mark Patterson (homepage) of Kennesaw State University (that’s in Georgia). (vs podcast episode 72 at 21:25) He’s talking about ArcGIS Explorer and something he heard from ESRI:
They were saying that Google Earth has pushed them to release 9.2 with its state of incarnation earlier than they had planned. So, this was supposed to be for ArcGIS 10 where it would be more Google Earth-like.
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/05 at 10:48 AM |
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by Adena Schutzberg on 12/05 at 08:23 AM |
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I can’t just link to Ed’s post on his blog, I need to comment. Ed’s leaving the Ordnance Survey after five years.
Most of us know him as OS’ CTO and more importantly I’d offer, as a voice of calm and reason on matters geospatial. His position at OS certainly gave him a more objective view of technology than say a vendor employee and he used the position to speak not only the Ordnance Survey’s position, but also his own (and clearly separated the two).
I’m sure we’ll continue to hear from Ed from where ever he ends up. But, in the meantime, keep an eye out for other folks in our industry (private, public or academic) who offer this sort of perspective. They are few and far between.
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/05 at 08:05 AM |
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