The 10 most crucial questions about the navigation market

The navigation market has been gaining a lot of traction in the last 12 months. As we meet with GPS manufacturers, navigation software editors, financial analysts and VCs, we keep hearing the same questions about where the industry is heading.

We have listed below what we think are the 10 most important questions. In the next two weeks, we will humbly provide our answers and we hope to trigger discussions on the blog. And if you think of any other relevant question, please feel free to ask them, we’ll try to give you our best answer.

1. How will the PND market grow in the next 5 years ?
2. Will the current dominant PND players be threatened by new entrants ?
3. Why does TomTom want to buy TeleAtlas ?
4. What are the key strategic concerns of PND players for the next 3-5 years ?
5. When will we see connected PNDs and are they relevant ?
6. Will smartphones cannibalize PNDs ?
7. How will the GPS phone market evolve in the next 3 years ?
8. Why did Nokia buy Navteq ?
9. Will LBS services finally take off, how and on which platform ?
10. How will the GPS business consolidate ?

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