Technology Management: Product Life Cycle
Not too many years ago, trading your old car for a new one meant driving to the dealer, swapping personal items from one vehicle to another, and driving way — all you left behind was the old car. Today you may have to leave behind that address book of GPS locations that you built up because the design of on-board GPS systems may not have a facility for transferring that personal data to a portable memory chip that could be inserted into the new system.1 Even if it did, the data formats may be incompatible unless automobile manufactures agree on a standard.
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