{"id":10617,"date":"2009-08-20T03:02:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T07:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/TomTom-Not-Worried-Over-Smartphone-Navigation-Apps"},"modified":"2009-08-20T03:02:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T07:02:33","slug":"tomtom-not-worried-over-smartphone-navigation-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10617","title":{"rendered":"TomTom Not Worried Over Smartphone Navigation Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the first things we thought when TomTom announced that it would finally be making an honest-to-goodness iPhone app was this: “what will this do to standalone GPS sales?” It’s a reasonable question–TomTom has long since made its profits by selling hardware with routing software built in. The app within was just a portion of the equation, while the actual device was where the money was.With smartphones becoming ever more pervasive, one has to wonder if profits will sink as individuals purchase cheaper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the first things we thought when TomTom announced that it would finally be making an honest-to-goodness iPhone app was this: “what will this do to standalone GPS sales?” It’s a reasonable question–TomTom has long since made its profits by selling hardware with routing software built in. The app within was just a portion of the equation, while the actual device was where the money was.With smartphones becoming ever more pervasive, one has to wonder if profits will sink as individuals purchase cheaper Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}