Oddly, this is a question where I have mulitple disasters of business and personal opportunities
involving lack of the belief in the future and a move from functioning alcoholic to non-functioning. I love booze!

1) Turned down UK master distribution for TomTom back in the day, gps antennae, laptop, software - too cumbersome. Perhaps they could look at a simpler delivery system and GBTM.
2) Too upset now. Upset on the memories, who needs internet.
3) Did not do the carousel VAT fraud which various people were getting v. rich from and I remained out of jail.

Mentioned before I think, turned down an A&R role what a hoot that could have been. If only I had fully understood the excesses of the recording industry, still I am alive and not in jail.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 17:24, 14 replies)

Liar lying like an Albert.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 17:27, closed)

+ schizophrenic by the look of it.

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Thu 3 Apr 2014, 17:59, closed)

does it have a look?

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 20:38, closed)

I could spot one on the other side of a stadium

(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 22:18, closed)

A laptop?
I worked with TomTom and Garmin in the very early days and they were already wince and palmos based. Are you sure the gaydrugs haven't addled your memory?
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 19:08, closed)

TBH, I think that you may have held them back. Oh wait, let me get to my filofax map of UK roads.
Windows CE and Palm - big sales.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 20:37, closed)

I can't parse that into a meaningful English sentence. soz

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 8:26, closed)

Okay, how did the devices runnning WINCE and PALM connect to the GPS satellites in late 2000/early 2001?
What were the restrictions on battery technology for most portable devices?

There are many more questions which I am sure you as an important member of the TOMTOM team would have been able to quickly overcome to bring about the launch of their first standalone consumer product in 2004.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 9:34, closed)

typical liebolic...he'll delete it shortly

( Albert Marshmallow is a completely irredeemable cunt, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 9:41, closed)

Garmin had a single package GPS receiver. Two or possibly three chips: rf and mixed signal plus their own (iirc) in-house DSP with an ARM core. They wanted to ditch the ARM and share the processor of the host devicee
I don't recall what TomTom used as we only did a bit of consultancy about integrating with US cell phone platforms.

If they were doing field tests then they'd almost certainly use laptops for gathering debug data. Perhaps that's what you were remembering?

Hth.

Still no idea what your previous post says.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 5 Apr 2014, 9:30, closed)

My brother in law has a licence for an American clothing brand in Brazil.
And does a bit of business selling teeshirts and beachware. He is well set up for importing and distributing chinese made crap.

I told him about 10 years ago he should look at importing sat navs, which were pretty much unheard of in Brazil. He was pretty dismissive, said it'd never take off.

I occasionally remind him of that.
(username failed moderation, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 11:17, closed)

The Chinese no-name third party products was where the money was (is) and the idea of what was
a very niche product with corporate clients being the target (not our discipline) requiring our company taking a not inconsiderable financial punt was in my view, not worthwhile. I was wrong, the fire burned very brightly and now the market changes yet again.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 12:37, closed)

There were no Shanzhai GPS offerings in the early noughties.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 5 Apr 2014, 12:05, closed)

I wasn't talking about GPS products, just a general observation regarding third party China electronics.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Sun 6 Apr 2014, 12:22, closed)