Comment by xigoi
5 hours ago
If GPS required you to pay hundreds of dollars per month to criminal companies, most people would still be using paper maps.
5 hours ago
If GPS required you to pay hundreds of dollars per month to criminal companies, most people would still be using paper maps.
Assuming 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.
That 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 :)
The 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.