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I'll gladly give it a try, but I have a question...
How to this company make money?
There are no ads, and they claim to not sell my info, yet they appear to have the funds to make a nice app with a lot of interesting features, how to they accomplish this?
Right I have taken a test drive with the app, without navigation but having the map up, and there are a few things I dislike.
I hate audio warnings, I use navigation apps as a complement to driving, like they say in avaiation "aviate, communicate, navigate", any automatic warnings tend to just distract me.
Ok so, sound was disabled, on to location accuracy.
Good when on a road, but I turned on to a parking lot and it refused to acknowledge that I had left the road, so road snapping is set too high
Ok, what about the map itself, the design of it?
The map looks great!
But the 3D view is set at a too shallow of an angle and shows me the horizon, that is just distracting to me, and I could not find a way to change it.
Ok, what about the UI?
Nice, I like it apart from the speed display on the map overlay.
It is too distracting, and I don't like that it shows your speed in bright red as soon as you go 1kmh over the limit.
Ok, what about the data?
It is unforutnately outdated or just wrong in the area I drove in.
Sadly I will probably be going back to google maps.
It stems from General Magic - look them up on WIkipedia. I saw this quote and realised how forward thinking those guys were "In 1990, Porat wrote the following note to Sculley: "A tiny computer, a phone, a very personal object . . . It must be beautiful. It must offer the kind of personal satisfaction that a fine piece of jewelry brings. It will have a perceived value even when it's not being used... Once you use it you won't be able to live without it." Nailed it.
I know about them, I didn't realize that they were the same company here, interesting.