Given the nearly $2,000 price tag, after a year of use, i have come to the conclusion that the COMAND system is vastly overpriced and under featured, compared to two or three year old aftermarket systems.

No text to speech in the GPS, something a four year old Garmin can do
Fewer POI despite using Naviteq maps
Problems with iPhone iOS contact lists
Clumsy iPod integration; try searching for a song on a fully loaded iPod