TomTom iPhone Cradle has appeared in the Apple Store

Shelster · 25 Sep 2009 at 05:29

Well,

I'm not going to pay £100 for a cradle on its own, so TomToms's loss there.

Does seem like one of the biggest SNAFU's for a while this one.

Heres hoping TomTom realise what a balls up they have made of the situation and resolve it PDQ

Cavallino · 25 Sep 2009 at 05:41

Shelster said:
Well,

I'm not going to pay £100 for a cradle on its own, so TomToms's loss there.

Does seem like one of the biggest SNAFU's for a while this one.

Heres hoping TomTom realise what a balls up they have made of the situation and resolve it PDQ

Anyone know what a SNAFU or a PDQ is without googling it?

EDIT: Googled and now learnt

Feek · 25 Sep 2009 at 06:23

Er, yes to both!

Cavallino · 25 Sep 2009 at 06:29

Feek said:
Er, yes to both!

Wish I was smart as you Feek

But I dont get SNAFU, Situation Normal... All ***** up??? What does that imply exactly? That everthing is fine and messed up at the same time?

jas72 · 25 Sep 2009 at 08:22

So no use for me then.

Don't they realise that UK is part of europe?

Why do Apple consistently get away with treating UK as a separate entity?
:confused:

Ol!ver · 25 Sep 2009 at 08:24

jas72 said:
So no use for me then.

Why do Apple consistently get away with treating UK as a separate entity?

Because we have a different currency.

flat-6 · 25 Sep 2009 at 10:00

Seems incredible that such experienced consumer businesses can get this stuff so wrong.

People saying they'll sell at this price - sure they will, but only a fraction of the volume that they would if it was competitive against regular PNDs. I mean, just look at the people posting in this thread; we're here because we were thinking about getting this, but the feeling is £100 for just the mount is crazy money that we aren't prepared to pay.

OllyM · 25 Sep 2009 at 10:02

Absolutely, they've really screwed up big time here.

Kol · 25 Sep 2009 at 14:01

Burned_Alive said:
Well, what's an array of items? You either have the Tom Tom iphone cradle or you have a standalone unit. It's no more cluttered to have a standalone unit and it's probably more practical. Not to mention it's more expensive to have the iphone than a standalone!

By array of items I meant phone & Satnav in cradles. It's much tidier for me to have it all in one unit - than have my phone in one cradle for use/hands free etc and a satnav.

Burned_Alive · 25 Sep 2009 at 17:24

You can connect to some sat nav with bluetooth and and then you can answer your phone with your sat nav unit? Phone remains in your pocket or wherever.

Ol!ver · 25 Sep 2009 at 18:59

Feek said:
I still don't know what's right. Don *smug* McAllister is saying that it's not included,

Off topic I know, but are you not a fan of Mr McAllister ?

Combat Fighter · 26 Sep 2009 at 12:41

Glad I went with CoPilot now.

Blackhawk47 · 26 Sep 2009 at 14:12

Just read the whole. Wowzors.

They have messed up big time. Obviously a lot of people are interested in TomTom for their iPhone. And Apple messed up on the marketing/info front.

Is it back on the store yet? I can't see it... :rolleyes:

carolber · 26 Sep 2009 at 14:30

OllyM said:
Apparently Tomtom have released a statement saying it will be £99.95 for just the mount. Absolutely disgraceful in my opinion, they won't sell any!

I'll carry on wedging mine in my dash board then.

nichorob · 27 Sep 2009 at 09:20

I take it the craddle only accomodated a naked iPhone as well? No adjustments for cases.

Duke · 27 Sep 2009 at 10:04

Which other nav software are worth looking at? I need to either get a holder & software or will just buy a tomtom instead. Rather have it in one device though.

hendrix · 27 Sep 2009 at 12:24

Combat Fighter said:
Glad I went with CoPilot now.

jas72 · 27 Sep 2009 at 23:30

Ol!ver said:
Because we have a different currency.

So does most of the EU

Well 11 countries....

Type_R · 27 Sep 2009 at 23:50

This is ridiculous, £100 for the cradle, I think not somehow!!

Im going to get Copilot, that will teach them!

Cavallino · 28 Sep 2009 at 00:00

I think I will pick up a TuneBase FM kit for 50 quid cheaper which does the same thing! (Aside from extra GPS gubbins in the TomTom dock - but the TomTom app has pretty good tracking so Im not fussed).