As a long time user and a big fan of Foreflight, this announcement chilled me to my very core. Jeppesen is the very definition of rent seeking, predatory, lock-in company. I deal with them because there is literally no other source for the data my airplane’s avionics need to fly legally in our IFR airspace.
Foreflight offers everything Jeppesen offers (other than avionics data subscriptions) in a vastly cheaper and more usable manner.
Boeing also bought Jeppesen a few decades ago- I was a pre Boeing Jeppesen customer too. I feel a dreadful surety that new Foreflight will become predatory like Jeppesen. There were already signs that way, anyway, with each round of new features requiring a “higher level” of subscription with Foreflight.
Oh well, technology company startup costs being what they are (almost nil) I will excitedly await the next entrant if my fears are realized.
Foreflight offers everything Jeppesen offers (other than avionics data subscriptions) in a vastly cheaper and more usable manner.
Boeing also bought Jeppesen a few decades ago- I was a pre Boeing Jeppesen customer too. I feel a dreadful surety that new Foreflight will become predatory like Jeppesen. There were already signs that way, anyway, with each round of new features requiring a “higher level” of subscription with Foreflight.
Oh well, technology company startup costs being what they are (almost nil) I will excitedly await the next entrant if my fears are realized.
PS: Non professional use for me.