Below is the answer I posted in response to the question “Will nav systems on cars become commodities or will they be replaced with apps?” on Quora.
I believe we will see cars become just another ‘device’ that connects to the cloud. So navigation (and many many other things) will just become apps accessed through your vehicle.
I think there are greater prospects for multi-modal inputs (voice, touch, gesture, etc) inside vehicles and hope to see the future taking advantage of these prospects.
Talk about how you can pick your digital persona to display to others
For weeks after reading this post I kept being reminded of it. It covers how difficult the balance is between planning for long-term goals at the expense of short-term success…. example – we plan to go worldwide so we should have a multi-language solution.
In my opinion, we see this all the time in enterprise efforts. Some call it overengineering but I prefer to think of it as having lost perspective to what is really valuable. We seem to get carried away with more and more rich features that are only used by a very small subset of users (assuming they have the patience to find out which of the 100 features they will use).