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RE: jeez..
Keep holding your breath, lol.
RE: jeez..
May be they speaking about July 30th 2004??????
Not meaning to sound like a broken record, but...
One problem is that the iQue runs rings around the GPS V, which is an old-style handheld GPS with a small black & white screen. As soon as the iQue is out at a very similar price, GPS Vs are simply going to sit on dealer shelves and gather dust.
The Street Pilot III is their "top end" car navigation system with a color screen about the same size as the iQue, although in landscape format. It is listed at $1099 (street of around $750). While the iQue doesn't have all the SP III bells, etc., it has 95% of the features. So it, too, is at risk of serious dust-gathering.
Garmin is running serious risk of burning most of their dealers with high-$$$ inventories in the older models, so they probably perceived that there's lots of incentive to keep delaying the iQue; this is the fourth or fifth delay announcement. It's time for them to... well... get off the pot. Too bad their short-sightedness is about to close the door on expanding their market beyond their traditional niche.
Yeesh!
(Why do some people say you can kill two birds with one stone when it's hard enough killing one bird with two stones?)
RE: Not meaning to sound like a broken record, but...
This is a new market for Garmin and I'm moderately sure they're still bumbling their way around. I hope they pull their act together quickly because I've already noticed that Magellan is making inroads into retailers that traditionally were Garmin bastions. Like I said, they need to get off the pot.
RE: Not meaning to sound like a broken record, but...
If Garmin could get the iQue in all of the usual Palm retail channels (OD, OM, Staples, BBuy, CUSA, CCity, Fry's etc) I seriously doubt they'd have to worry about cutting off their GPS receiver sales at sporting good/outdoorsman supply places.
RE: Not meaning to sound like a broken record, but...
Your comment about the outdoor shops (being down the street from a BassPro) does make me really wonder. They have an OK market in the eTrex line, and for the outdoorsman it's (IMHO) a better unit than what Magellan has to offer, although both have quirky UIs, just pick your favorite quirks. You do make me think what sort of traffic Garmin really has in the GPS V and SP III. Their market for those should have been saturated a year ago or more, so any further delays will in the end amount to pennies.
[insert thoughtful chin-scratching]
RE: Not meaning to sound like a broken record, but...
An idea...
(Why do some people say you can kill two birds with one stone when it's hard enough killing one bird with two stones?)
In time for Xmas?
I hear Santa needs both to make his rounds. His PPC keeps crashing.
Garmin's lost sale
RE: Garmin's lost sale
Frankly, if the Garmin doesn't ship on the 30th, I'm going to cancel my IQUE order on Amazon and buy a Navman GPS and an M515 (combined price: $330 dollars, $220 less than the IQUE, and it includes a vehicle mount).
July is almost over, and half the point of a gadget like the IQUE is having a toy for summer road trips.
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