Comments on: businesses: potentially self-defeating http://locative.myvelodrome.org/2008/02/19/businesses-potentially-self-defeating/ class blog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:57:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: phyllis http://locative.myvelodrome.org/2008/02/19/businesses-potentially-self-defeating/#comment-28 phyllis Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:45:50 +0000 http://locative.myvelodrome.org/2008/02/19/businesses-potentially-self-defeating/#comment-28 Even though this has not yet happened in bluetooth, I've noticed this phenomenon in my friend's GPS system that she has in her Toyota Prius. She looks at it as a convenience, but when I saw it, I was appalled at all the "points of interest" that were clogging up the map. I think I may have mentioned this in class, but one evening we were in Oakland looking for a Subway sandwich shop and according to the map there were a ton of them. Of course we couldn't find any of them because some of them were in the BART stations and inside office buildings, or closed and their signs off. For me, this supposed convenience of having these locations embedded in the map were frustrating. I made the proposal of driving around and just looking for a place the old fashioned way, but my friend who is quite dependent on her GPS by now though that was preposterous and archaic. Even though this has not yet happened in bluetooth, I’ve noticed this phenomenon in my friend’s GPS system that she has in her Toyota Prius. She looks at it as a convenience, but when I saw it, I was appalled at all the “points of interest” that were clogging up the map.

I think I may have mentioned this in class, but one evening we were in Oakland looking for a Subway sandwich shop and according to the map there were a ton of them. Of course we couldn’t find any of them because some of them were in the BART stations and inside office buildings, or closed and their signs off.

For me, this supposed convenience of having these locations embedded in the map were frustrating. I made the proposal of driving around and just looking for a place the old fashioned way, but my friend who is quite dependent on her GPS by now though that was preposterous and archaic.

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