Skycaddie Bird's Eye/Aerial Hole View

[thlongball]

Has anyone seen screen shots? Still Sept 15 launch?

I know the birds eye/aerial view feature is suppossed to release Sept 15th I believe for the Skycaddie for certain courses. I'm wondering if anyone has seen actual screen shots/pics of what the graphics for this technology look like... If you have pics, have seen pics, no were to find them please send my way or post a link....

Thanks

[23muc]

this is all that I have seen...

[url="http://www.intheholegolf.com/blog/"]http://www.intheholegolf.com/blog/[/url]

[url="http://www.intheholegolf.com/img/skygolf-intelligreen-pro.jpg"]http://www.intheholegolf.com/img/skygolf-i...ligreen-pro.jpg[/url]

[MorgensternA]

Is the update out now or is there somewhere an official announcement?

Regards
Andreas

[Spumoni]

The update was avail on 9/15

[steve1iron]

That's what the press release said, but did it actually happen. Have you seen the update on your SG5?

[oJAKo]

Somebody on another site called them and they gave another bs answer of there hoping by the end of the month

[sidewinder]

[quote name='Babaganoosh' post='1954099' date='Sep 16 2009, 07:37 AM']The update was avail on 9/15[/quote]
No, it was not.....

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[3put]

No! Have not seen it and I don't believe it's available now? Curious as to how and when though.... any word, besides the already attached link?

[hmm_121]

This morning I initiated a chat with a Sky Golf rep online and they said the update could be out anywhere from today to two weeks from now. Then I asked if they new how many courses would be available with the updated features upon the launch of the software update and the rep had no idea. Now how can you not even have an estimate on such information? It wasn't like I was asking in regards to a specific course, just tell me a ballpark figure as to how many will be available at the initial release. I understand the logic that for the intellgreen plus portion of the update that courses would have to be re-mapped. However what I didn't understand was I was also told that courses would have to be re-mapped for the birds eye view portion of the update. I can't quite figure out how re-mapping will contribute to the birds eye view feature. My assumption is the hole layout images would be developed off of sat images. Go figure. Just more frustration from the lack of answers via Sky Golf. Personally I think its terrible marketing to make announcements about upcoming product enhancements and then provide no information as to when they can be expected even after 6 months since it was first announced. If its not ready to be released, dont tease us with it for months on end.

[3put]

It seems like they got in over their heads with the announcement before the new feature developed any real teeth. I don't really have any general complaints with them and I'm sure the new feature will be great wen it's all said and done.

[TM_HOYER]

[quote name='3put' post='1954829' date='Sep 16 2009, 04:33 PM']It seems like they got in over their heads with the announcement before the new feature developed any real teeth. I don't really have any general complaints with them and I'm sure the new feature will be great wen it's all said and done.[/quote]

What Skycaddie did is standard marketing practices for most businesses. If you are the big dog, you announce early to keep people from buying the competition's product with the features you are adding. If you are the small dog, you announce and release early, hoping the problems are small and the early release does not blowup in you face.

Also in software, it is not unusual for marketing to give a release date the programmers know there is no chance of being met. Years ago, I worked at a healthcare company that marketed an insurance plan that our software could not handle. And we did not find out about it until claims started coming in.