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Lostby7 14 years, 7 months ago.
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You only have one chance to make a first impression. Hopefully Garmin developers are aware of this truism…
I completely agree with TBC’s observation on the open API…but IF they can serve the base it could be huge.
On the Left Side of the Road...@gotta run wrote:
You only have one chance to make a first impression.
I’m not sure but haven’t they made their first impression? (Multiple times already?).
Garmin claims to have been in contact with the various OC.xx admins, but none of them have heard word one from Garmin. Very underhanded. Still don’t understand why they couldn’t create something new instead of trying to pirate an existing name.
@glorkar wrote:
Garmin claims to have been in contact with the various OC.xx admins, but none of them have heard word one from Garmin. Very underhanded. Still don’t understand why they couldn’t create something new instead of trying to pirate an existing name.
If this has been in the works for awhile, maybe they already had the name 1st?
@cheezehead wrote:
@glorkar wrote:
Garmin claims to have been in contact with the various OC.xx admins, but none of them have heard word one from Garmin. Very underhanded. Still don’t understand why they couldn’t create something new instead of trying to pirate an existing name.
If this has been in the works for awhile, maybe they already had the name 1st?
Garmin may have been working on this site for over a year based on the placement date of the cache shown in an image earlier in the tread…but that is an assumption.
The only problem with that is the fact that there have been opencaching.xx sites in existence since at least 2006.
Well, I have no clue how it works, but why didn’t OC.US use OC.com? Cuz one could open a OC. NET if one wanted to. I never understood how the whole .com , .net , and dot whatever works.
Garmin bought the .com version from a previous owner…that or the domain name expired and then they registered it again, but I suspect the former happened.
I’ve been in touch with the previous own a little bit and he did sell it to Garmin. Opencaching.us chose the dot country suffix to follow suit with the pre-existing Opencaching community. All of the other Opencaching sites are country based.
@-cheeto- wrote:
I enjoyed Jeremy Irish’s Facebook status post yesterday. Anyone else notice?
yeah, it was hilarous. He rated his awesomeness at 3.5.
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Opencaching.com does not allow virtuals. I think that sucks. BUT on the other hand opencaching.us does allow them. I have listed caches on both sites.
I noticed Jeremy Irish posted this link on FB, without making the observation that this may be behind Garmin’s efforts at OC:
http://marketplayground.com/2010/12/09/gps-sales-fall-37-over-black-friday/
Basically, the news story notes that GPS sales are down 37% this year compared to last Christmas shopping season, the largest drop by any consumer electronic.
Perhaps Garmin is entering the OC market, not from a position of strength as one would assume, but rather because their core growth area is drying up.
zuma
@zuma wrote:
Perhaps Garmin is entering the OC market, not from a position of strength as one would assume, but rather because their core growth area is drying up.
This would then infer there is a monetary gain in their future from the OC venture? I didn’t see anything akin to “premium” on their site yet, so I’m wondering if that’s coming, or if they’re going to use the site to promote the technology (i.e. chirp, whereigo, etc.) in hopes of additional sales. It’s definately an interesting stat though (-37% sales), but here’s an interesting thought. What about micropayments for caches logged (the pay as you go plan) It works for the drastically changed music market, smartphone apps, etc. Maybe even tie the payment to the rating scale (i.e. a 1/1 P&G is $0.01 while a 5/5 is $0.50). Just random thoughts as I try to think outside the box on how a caching site would be used to generate revenue for a hardware manufacturer.
Garmin has seen large sales drops in several areas of it’s business…These items have been in the news for the past 6 months. The appearance of the Garmin Geocaching site has been speculated since updates to the Oregon changed the Geocaching logo to a treasure chest and then came the Chirp. The writing was on the wall for this new site for some time.
I registered (no verification step…) and uploaded a handful of caches and completed the form. Then they all showed that the form hadn’t been completed. Seems buggy… Still not sure if they are listed. Don’t show up on the map.
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