Anyone tried this? Looks pretty good...not sure about the pay as go model. Hmmm... 
http://www.gokivo.com/iphone/features.html
http://www.gokivo.com/iphone/features.html
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I'm not buying any GPS navigation for 99¢! I'd rather pay more for a company I trust, then scrape the bottom of the barrel and get lost in the middle of nowhere.
If you look at it in the app store, it says "Top In App Purchases"
1. 1 Month(30 days) $9.99
I agree, but according to their website, they power pretty much every carrier's navigation systems.
http://networksinmotion.com/newsroom/04_30_2009_VZNav_global.php
If that's true, they certainly seem legit.
It looks really nice, but I'd rather pay it all up front... hoping Navigon or TomTom releases something soon (before my vacation trip in July).
So in app purchase is going to allow developers to find inventive ways to scam customers. This app is clearly a scam.
There is no scam --- Gokivo is made by NIM, which also makes Verizon's and AAA's turn-by-turn navigation apps (both of them also charge the same $9.99 a month subscription fee on Verizon feature phones).
NIM's VZ Navigator has been the most successful TBT navigation app in the US --- and extremely accurate. So if you try Gokivo and you find that it's not accurate --- it ain't Gokivo's fault, it the fault of the iphone hardware that feeds them inaccurate GPS data.
How is it a scam when they clearly tell you on the top right corner of the page that it charges you a monthly fee?
I think he ment the whole system with it. I agree, now instead of developers having to rase the price of things, they can just to in app purchases which sucks.
Yeah, but conversely you pay only for what you use.
If this app also included offline apps, why pay a hundred dollars for the entire US and Canada, say, if all you wanted was a specific Canadian province, or US state. If you find yourself needing a map for the next state over, you could purchase it on demand.
As already stated in this thread, this model is nothing new... this developer uses the same pricing on other platforms. Don't worry, there will be other offerings soon.
What they really lack is the $2.99 one day subscription.
Verizon has their record-setting downloads for VZ Navigator during the long weekends in the summer time --- where people just paid $2.99 to get to their long weekend destination.
Got an e-mail back from one of NIM's reps. They wanted to do that initially (along with the $10 monthly fee) but Apple wouldn't allow it right off the bat. They want to "ease people" into the idea of in-app purchasing first. The NIM rep basically hinted that the $2.99 one-day shot option *will* be offered in the very near future...I guess when the hysteria of in-app purchasing dies down.
I give a lot of credit to these guys for having the stones to be the first to do this. I fully expect Telenav to do the same once their app comes to the App Store.
So what, Apple's deciding price points now? I call bull. I very much doubt Apple would refuse to sell a product that's too expensive. That'd be like Satan lecturing on morality.
Apple does many bizarre things that are never fully understood, so who knows what their motivations are?
No reason to doubt NIM at all --- they sell the same $9.99 a month and $2.99 a day subscriptions on other platforms like VZ Navigator and AAA Mobile Navigator. Competitors like TeleNav also sell AT&T Navigator at the same price point of $9.99 a month and $2.99 a day.
You sound like you never live in the real world.