Android 2.0 introduced Google Maps with turn by turn navigation. If you’re a gadget geek as well as someone who follows the stock markets, you would have noticed when this was announced that stock prices for Tomtom, Garmin, and other GPS makers dropped. Google Maps with navigation provides navigation, maps search, business search, basically everything you get from Google Maps, in general, with Google’s online mapping. So why did this spell doom for the GPS makers? Google Maps with turn by turn navigation is included with Android 2.0 and all map data is updated frequently at no additional charge. The GPS makers do not update their map data frequently, and most of them charge for their updates.
