.........so is it fact that a bunch of 'international' technocrats, employed by TT in Nederlands.. have managed to stuff up the Euriope maps unaided?
Indeed. There's no development team on U.S. soil. Wish there were - we might get more input into things. As you can imagine, our situation here is somewhat different than yours. Ditto for product management. They won't even sell us a 940 here, much less a 950, and they don't support the 740 with the accessories needed to derive all of its benefits.
BUT this increased map size and Zones has really stuffed my Go 720......... I have spent over 20 hrs in the pastw eek trying to get this sorted.
Not a happy labrador..............
Certainly understood. The whole regionalization/zoning of the full European map came as a big surprise to a lot of owners of TT units who had come to think of the map as a single entity, and TT managed the announcement (lack)
very poorly, springing things on their European users via Home during the 850 update. Owners there who had come to expect to take their TomTom's sans computer when they traveled certainly got the rude surprise. No question the whole thing was pretty shabby.
Then again, TomTom has been making a dog's breakfast of informing their customers about changes to existing product features for some time now. I know the surprise pulling of the FM modulator nav feature with no warning -- just "happened" with a recommended firmware update per Home -- certainly jacked some peoples' jaws. Given my vehicle configuration, that never bothered me since I had to come up with an alternative to their modulator anyway, but for those for whom it was working nicely ... ouch.
I appreciate it when a company comes out with release notes for their updates. I appreciate it far more when those notes are thorough. The more detail there is, the better prepared I am to make a decision as to whether my use model is positively or negatively impacted by the expected result.
With TomTom Home, it's not even skimpy release notes - it's usually none - just "Here, do this because it's good for you (and see what happens)". Yeah - pull my finger. Sadly, TomTom's lack of communication to their customers is one of the things that makes this forum as valuable as it is. Heck of a deal, eh?
