Lifetime updates for Garmin GPS

Effy wrote:
A company would go broke trying to maintain support of all it's legacy operating systems. In your case it's very likely the newer maps are too large for the storage capacity of your old device. Ask me how I know. And since you can't upgrade the memory on the older devices you are forced to buy new. Some of this is planned obsolescence. The newer models have slots for expanded memory to mitigate some of this problem in the future.

There is enough memory in the 7200 and as I mentioned, it also has a slot for an SD memory card to expand the memory. The Garmin support said that the new software is just incompatible with the hardware of the StreetPilot device.

Sam Spade wrote:


But the situation is not quite as dire as you paint it.
How old is that Street Pilot anyway ?

I think maybe MORE than 15 years.....because I have two Nuvi models, with a combined age of about 15 and the Garmin Express software still updates both just fine....except for the memory work-around on one.

I can't think of a single company that supports it's old stuff forever.

Mine was purchased 6 years ago along with the Lifetime nuMaps card.
If you go to Garmin Express with a StreetPilot, it will tell you that it is not supported and to download the older Garmin Lifetime Maps Updater. Download it and it tells you that there are no new maps available, which is why I contacted Garmin directly.
The Nuvi and StreetPilot lines overlapped in sales.

As I said, Oh well. :B
This post was just to let others know that Garmin decides when to stop updating their devices and if you happen to purchase one towards the end of when decide to stop support, your Lifetime updates may not last very long.
Perhaps they should make GPS units that stop working sooner. :B