Levisp wrote:
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Don't think your idea of NAV VII with Android OS would work, too many of us have Apple devices. Personally they should have just put CarPlay and Android Auto Play into the bike. Have a direct connection and allow users to choose what apps to navigate by. Job done !
[size=2px]IMHO they should have developed a device, call it a NAV VII or TFT Nav. It could be using the Android operating system and have a few Apps on it. We upload our routes to it and plug it into the USB port in the phone pocket. And it works when you buy the bike, it simply connects in and there are no updates to it (unless BMW need to update it).[/size]
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[size=2px]Anecdotal: I just sold the Goldwing Model which comes with a Sat. Nav.; the bummer in this system is that they [/size]embedded[size=2px] a cheap Harman GPS system and as a caveat for those who want Car Play and Auto Android, the system does not work well with either one on the Goldwing.[/size]
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[size=2px]I do like David's idea that they should have had NAV VII but not with the connectivities to other units except the Bluetooth. There is too much variance in technology, [/size]configuration[size=2px] and software in trying to sync apps, cell OS, bluetooth, and the bike's electronic...that seems to me, a recipe of complexities that can only result on systemic failures--in particular, as each of these electronic resources updates their own software.[/size]
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[size=2px]Just so that it don't look like a thread highjack: I thought it was nice when the 'wethead' thread came on line, I thought it would be nice if one could flash on a thread for 1250/s the same way...but hey, whatevers. If logic is a priority in this conversation, the differences between the 1200 [/size]preceding[size=2px] the wethead are not any more radical or unimportant than the changes from the 1250 to the 1200. Therefore, I don't see the logic of that point of view in the conversation--other than folks just don't want change. I can pretty much guarantee you that 1250 owners are browsing looking for 1250 topics and no one with a 1250 is any longer interested in the 1200 issues. Then on every thread, folks are gonna have to ID which engine size bike they have. And, as it appears to me from shopping around for accessories, many things that fit the 1200 do not fit the 1250. [/size]
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[size=2px]You may want to think also about the marketing value of this forum: as soon as someone comes up with a 1250 dedicated forum, all the 1250 owners are going to migrate out of here. Many businesses nowadays go 'obsolete' in their market because of crystalized administrative constructs unwilling to change. ...'m just saying![/size]
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[size=2px]Change is difficult for humans, ain't it? Yet, its the only constant in this world today. [/size]
If it takes you all day to do something you used to do all day, you are getting old.
