Originally Posted by
atwl77
He's wondering about the aversion to connecting to the phone for initial set-up, and I replied to him that to me, it is a form of activation, and then went on to describe what I meant by activation as well as my stance on that matter. Address a topic by making a point, then elaborate on the point. Basic interaction stuff.
Well, you
don't know whether it's a form of activation. (I don't know if it's an activation.)
It's kind of moot anyway if you want updates to firmware or maps (if you need to register the device to get these, it's not really much different from activation).