March 26, 2010 11:52
I know of another navigation product coming out for the iPad - one that doesn't require pixel doubling in order to take advantage of the larger screen real estate. It'll fully work on the iPhone too - universal binary.
I think the whole navigation horizon for boating is about to change on the iPhone/iPad. A lot of the capabilities available currently are very low end. It's time the products did more and worked the way boaters expect. It isn't good enough to just display static, non-rotated, non-quilted charts with a GPS cursor in the center. It isn't good enough to have to leave an app in order to get something like tide and current info, especially current when it's most useful to display the indication over the chart. It isn't good enough to have a strange user-interface that makes more sense to the developer than the boater.
It's time for something new...
I think the whole navigation horizon for boating is about to change on the iPhone/iPad. A lot of the capabilities available currently are very low end. It's time the products did more and worked the way boaters expect. It isn't good enough to just display static, non-rotated, non-quilted charts with a GPS cursor in the center. It isn't good enough to have to leave an app in order to get something like tide and current info, especially current when it's most useful to display the indication over the chart. It isn't good enough to have a strange user-interface that makes more sense to the developer than the boater.
It's time for something new...