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Navigon Licence Transfer not allowed!
kheemonahs
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Navigon Europe:
I may be naïve but I thought that if you paid £50 for a phone application (which is a lot of money in my book), you would be able to transfer the licence from one phone to another, but no!
In this day of Very Good Free Turn By Turn Navigation Apps, people changing phones and changing from Windows Phone to Android etc, in doing so you would think that if you had paid £50 you would be able to take the Licence from one phone to another, irrespective of it's O/S.
Now before you say this blokes an idiot surely he knows these Apps are not Cross Platform, and Windows Phone Apps do not run on Android phones, yes I do, (30yrs experience with computers + qualifications) but when the SAME program written for BOTH platforms, called the SAME name and does the SAME job, you would think that the company would make sure that after paying £50 once you would not be required to repay every time you changed phones with different o/s's.
Now forgive me if this has been covered before in this forum, but I am a new member and I am wondering if other members think I am being unreasonable in expecting this transfer to be available.
I would expect to be able to ask the manufacturer (and also the beneficiary of most of my £50), to cancel the Licence Number on my Windows Phone and make one available to activate the newly installed Android one.
Now I don't feel this is either impossible nor unreasonable, only one App will ever be owned and active at one time, but Navigon/Garmin think it is!
They expect that if I want to run Navigon Europe (which I paid £50 for) on my new Android phone I should RE-BUY-IT!
Am I alone in thinking/expecting this? javascript:emoticon(':(')javascript:emoticon(':?:')
I may be naïve but I thought that if you paid £50 for a phone application (which is a lot of money in my book), you would be able to transfer the licence from one phone to another, but no!
In this day of Very Good Free Turn By Turn Navigation Apps, people changing phones and changing from Windows Phone to Android etc, in doing so you would think that if you had paid £50 you would be able to take the Licence from one phone to another, irrespective of it's O/S.
Now before you say this blokes an idiot surely he knows these Apps are not Cross Platform, and Windows Phone Apps do not run on Android phones, yes I do, (30yrs experience with computers + qualifications) but when the SAME program written for BOTH platforms, called the SAME name and does the SAME job, you would think that the company would make sure that after paying £50 once you would not be required to repay every time you changed phones with different o/s's.
Now forgive me if this has been covered before in this forum, but I am a new member and I am wondering if other members think I am being unreasonable in expecting this transfer to be available.
I would expect to be able to ask the manufacturer (and also the beneficiary of most of my £50), to cancel the Licence Number on my Windows Phone and make one available to activate the newly installed Android one.
Now I don't feel this is either impossible nor unreasonable, only one App will ever be owned and active at one time, but Navigon/Garmin think it is!
They expect that if I want to run Navigon Europe (which I paid £50 for) on my new Android phone I should RE-BUY-IT!
Am I alone in thinking/expecting this? javascript:emoticon(':(')javascript:emoticon(':?:')
Comments
But really, a license is like a contract that you agree to when you purchase the app. You need to read all the fine print about the restrictions and ask questions if you don't understand the terms.
The issue is really very simple then, if you don't like the license, don't buy the app.
Apple's developer agreements restrict license transfers like that. While Navigon could technically do it, they couldn't without violating their agreement with Apple.
Perhaps Android and Microsoft have similar developer restrictions.... would seem likely.
Yours frustratingly....