Apple probably won't let Google have access to the necessary API.
The API is available to all devs.
Apple probably won't let Google have access to the necessary API.
Oh, the question is why Apple's Contacts app doesn't have a button to press that opens Google Maps? Yeah, I think you're right-- it's just about the manageability of everyone wanting to add buttons to Contacts.Access to the address book database from third party apps are limited in what they can do to the address book.
Third party apps cannot write custom identifiers or create custom fields in the address book.
In order for the Google Maps to create a "pin" location for user in the contacts app, it needs to have the ability to create new field with the pin data.
And I agree... I'm sure Google would love to have everyone use Google contacts.
I suspect the issue here is more of Apple not wanting Google, or anyone else for that matter, getting in to the Core services frameworks in iOS.
Apple probably won't let Google have access to the necessary API.
I've seen how this confuses Android users who have no experience with Apple's data security model, but most people don't want every app on their phone to have unfettered access to all of the data stored on their phone. From my perspective, I would put Google toward the bottom of the list I'd trust with my contact information (one notch above Facebook).
What? No on-the-fly re-routing? That gives it very limited usefulness for driving directions.
Very odd - it was drawing them in blue when I posted the comment but, as you rightly point out, they're orange now.
Either that, or I'm simply going mad.
However... in other Google-maps related news:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-23331456
They've managed to delete an entire (large) island from Scotland.
I wonder if they'll ask Apple Maps to find it again?
I've seen how this confuses Android users who have no experience with Apple's data security model, but most people don't want every app on their phone to have unfettered access to all of the data stored on their phone. From my perspective, I would put Google toward the bottom of the list I'd trust with my contact information (one notch above Facebook).
The BEST feature it has -- which wasn't advertised in the description -- is BICYCLE ROUTES!!!! I cycle all the time and I've long been waiting for this update!! NOW I can really get around!
Google Maps is decades ahead of its competitors.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-23331456
They've managed to delete an entire (large) island from Scotland.
Works quite well with a certain JB tweak. Just certain web pages have issues, but I think they do , anyway. Everything else links direct to Google Maps.Oh, the question is why Apple's Contacts app doesn't have a button to press that opens Google Maps? Yeah, I think you're right-- it's just about the manageability of everyone wanting to add buttons to Contacts.
There shouldn't be anything that prevents Google Maps from pulling the address information out of Apple's address book API from within Google Maps and making it available with whatever bells or whistles they'd like. Or creating a Contacts app of their own that includes both the Apple contacts database information and their own supplemental information.
You seem very confused about how Android apps work
40% is a lot. Care to provide some examples?
I would hope most users are smart enough to realize that those permissions are BS and would not install the app.Uh, I have an Android work phone. I know exactly how Android app permissions work: You download a basic flashlight app and it demands permissions to your phone log, contacts, calendar, location data, etc. in order to work.
That's true for many of us, not just Google....I suspect they are more interested in mapping the ocean floor and North Korea than rural America.
I would hope most users are smart enough to realize that those permissions are BS and would not install the app.
Point was not missed at all.And my point (which you managed to miss entirely) is that iOS gives me the granularity to revoke or re-grant those permissions to an app, at will.
For example, if I want to let an app save a contact to my iPhone contacts, I can grant that permission to the app, and then revoke it later if I so choose.
For an Android, it's all or nothing.
I guess you could root your phone (prohibited for my work Android) and install a third-party security layer i.e. CyanogenMod but, even then, many apps crash when they are denied permissions the developer assumed they should have. It never seems to have occurred to Google to design the OS with that in mind.
Edit: I'm not the only one who thinks so: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10340
Apple Maps still doesn't have its act together, but will reroute when you can't follow its directions. Google Maps has excellent data, but cannot reroute. BlackBerry Maps on my Q10 has great data and rerouting, but is brain dead when it comes to business names.
"... Even in the future, nothing works!"