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If GPS required you to pay hundreds of dollars per month to criminal companies, most people would still be using paper maps.
by xigoi 8d ago
If GPS required you to pay hundreds of dollars per month to criminal companies, most people would still be using paper maps.
- trhway 8d agoThat exactly illustrates the way of technology - the first commercial GPS receivers cost $3000, and of course people used the paper maps back then, yet technology prices have always been going down (temporary RAM crunches notwithstanding :)
- xigoi 8d agoThe difference is that the inventors of GPS didn’t deliberately buy out the entire world’s supply of GPS receivers so that no more could be sold to ordinary people.
- spacebanana7 8d agoAssuming paper maps were the only alternative - absolutely yes. I probably would, and least on a pro rata basis for bigger weekend trips in unfamiliar areas.
- snapcaster 8d agoWhat is this based on? my view seems to be that people happily pay tons of money to criminal companies for pretty marginal utility