Everything increases ! The 5 Apple has made the decision of an general increase of its App Store pricing list about next to 20%. This therefore concerns applications and certain in-app purchases, like services provided by the developers themselves, including cartography. This does not appear to affect in-app purchases via auto-renewing subscription, like the “Navionics Plus” option in Boating, in example. Read more …
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Satellite phones : prices increase in France
If satellite phone rates, mainly Iridium and Inmarsat, have not evolved in the United States., this is not the case in France. After storage removal of products remained on the shelves, new supplies from distributors saw a sharp increase. Indeed, the combined action of Euro decline and French VAT rise obligated to a significant prices increase, both the material as communication SIM vouchers, prepaid or postpaid. Read more …
Navionics Marine still going strong
Strong of 1 million applications sold for mobile devices, announcement end of April 2013, Navionics continues to offer new and more attractive options. However, the term “tempting” could sometimes rhyme with “disillusioning”.
The last option in-app available from 15 August 2013 is called NavionicsPlus. This is the fourth paid option that Navionics has added to its Navionics Marine apps for iPhone and iPad. What is it about ?
Curious price changes at Navionics
Bad news : changes in the price of Navionics charts for iNavX on iPad have appeared on the site x-traverse.com, and unfortunately for the regions that directly concern us : Region 46XG Europe and 43XG Mediterranean (replacing the previous 23XG 2011) for iPad increase by +13% to $54 up to $61 (either daily exchange 38 € up to 43 € environ).
At the same time, however, Region 28XG British Isles lose -18% to $84 up to $69 (59 € up to 48 € environ). Good news for English browsers, and our fellow citizens who travel the beautiful coastline of the "Perfide Albion".
It remains nonetheless that, after a significant increase in early May with the arrival of editions 2011, it is surprising to see such rapid changes just at the start of the summer season, you'd think the stock rates !
Bad news from Apple !
In an October post 2009, I headlined “Good news from Apple” mentioning the price drop of the Mac Mini which had just been renewed. This time it’s quite the opposite. !
In the media frenzy surrounding the arrival of the iPad, iPhone 4 and iOS4, the presentation of the Mac Mini unibody 2010 seems to be (nearly) unnoticed… except for the purse. Read more …
The question of choice
A reoccurring question comes regularly by email from my visitors : which computer equipment to choose for yachting ? It is a fact that, faced with the spectacular growth in equipment available to recreational sailors, it becomes very difficult to form an opinion. By giving partial answers to one and the other, and often unsatisfactory, I ended up realizing the facts. Actually, the choice of a navigation system is essentially based on the answer to a question : for what need ?
I therefore tried to define these needs and put an appropriate solution in front of each person.. This may seem a little simplistic, but above all it has the merit of simplifying things. I took the opportunity to calculate the current budget for each of the solutions in order to highlight a criterion that seems fundamental to me : the Need/Coast ratio. Let's go… Read more …
Good news from Apple !
No, I won't tell you about the insolent quarterly results published by Apple (more than 20 million devices sold, all models combined).
I won't tell you about the dizzying rise in Apple shares over the past year either. (to 78 up to 192 dollars).
No, isn't it.
The good news I want to talk about is the new Mac Mini going on sale ! Enjoy, macusers browsers : entry-level 2.26GHz, 2 GB of RAM and a 160 GB hard drive, that all for 549 €, thus 50 less than the previous entry level.
That makes a superb equipment to get onboard for GPSNavX or MacENC about 786 € !
Oui, oui, right count : Mac Mini + Clavier standard + souris Magic Mouse + 1 wide 19 screen″ LCD 1er prix (from one of our specialist suppliers).
Although, for my own, a wireless mouse on a card table, as the boat heels… you know.
No, I won't tell you about the insolent quarterly results published by Apple (more than 20 million devices sold, all models combined).
I won't tell you about the dizzying rise in Apple shares over the past year either. (to 78 up more to 200 dollars).
No, isn't it.
The good news I want to talk about is the sale of the new Mac Mini ! Enjoy, macusers boaters : entry level 2,26 GHz, 2 GB of RAM and a hard drive 160 GB RAM, that all for 549 €, thus 50 less than the previous entry level.
That makes a superb equipment to get onboard for GPSNavX or MacENC about 786 € !
Oui, oui, right count : Mac Mini + Clavier standard + souris Magic Mouse + 1 wide 19 screen″ LCD 1er prix (from one of our specialist suppliers) good enough to get onboard.
Although, for my own, a wireless mouse on a card table, as the boat heels… you know.