Mio buys Magellan
Dec 16, 2008 gps navigation, magellan, mio
OK, the title is not 100% correct, it really should say “Mio’s parent company MiTAC bought Magellan consumer products division”. But you get the idea. Magellan which was on a losing streak just got consumed by Mio which has been growing its market share here in the U.S. and the world for the last couple of years. If you remember Mio also bought Navman – another GPS navigation system maker – recently.
Nobody knows whether Mio will continue the Maestro, RoadMate and the Triton series from Magellan.
Maybe Mio is the next challenger for Garmin in the U.S. What do you think?
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December 19th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Wow….if you thought Magellan was bad before, just wait! I have a Mio GPD and it is a piece of crap! The routing engine is horrendous, it is full of software bugs and Tech Support is non-existent. So sad…..
December 19th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Wow….if you thought Magellan was bad before, just wait! I have a Mio GPS and it is a piece of crap! The routing engine is horrendous, it is full of software bugs and Tech Support is non-existent. So sad…..
January 18th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
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March 4th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
I bought my Mio Moov, because it was cheaper for a comparably-featured Garmin. When I was told that was because Mio supplies most of the parts for Garmin’s products, it only made sense to me. How true that really is, I haven’t had time to research for my own good, but I sure like it. I bought this, over the other brands, because it had everything I wanted, and was cheaper. I would suspect, and hope, Mio’s purchase of Magellan will force lower prices for the products. Not that I care, really, unless one of them comes out with a GPS that offers an autojack and coffee maker
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