Because Google demands fees for access and before now Apple didn't have their own fully developed map data base to use.
Now perhaps they do and they won't be using Google anymore.
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Google to Show Off 'Next Dimension' of Maps on June 6
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Because Google demands fees for access and before now Apple didn't have their own fully developed map data base to use.
Now perhaps they do and they won't be using Google anymore.
There are way too many mornings where I don't have breakfast due to sheer lack of time gettings the kids ready for daycare and school.
30 minutes is a luxury...
Aaaand Google fires one across Apple's bow... nice.
It's a shame that they're effectively at war with one another now. Apple makes great devices. Google makes some pretty great apps. They should work together.
MS, too, makes some great software -- I'm glad they're recognizing they should play nice with Apple and offer Office/Skydrive to Mac/iOS users.
It's a shame that they're effectively at war with one another now. Apple makes great devices. Google makes some pretty great apps. They should work together.
MS, too, makes some great software -- I'm glad they're recognizing they should play nice with Apple and offer Office/Skydrive to Mac/iOS users.
Come on, you've been reading MacRumors for a while. You know if they announced like 2 hours later, it would have been "They copied Apple!" non-stop, even though it would have been humanly impossible.
Only the trolls and ultra-fanboys. I give most people more credit than that until they show they don't deserve it. The more dangerous thing would have been google unveiling it months ago and then months after apple unveiling it, people say Apple started it all along.
Is that because Apple's UI sucked, because Apple put a ball and chain on the functionality or because what Apple provided is all that Google allows others to license to encourage users that want full function to come to Google to get it. Either in their own app or via the web (where they can bypass Apple's privacy rules about app data collection)
This is off topic but...
I know this is off topic but does anyone know when Apple's Yahoo! deal is up for stock quotes, etc?
I know this is off topic but does anyone know when Apple's Yahoo! deal is up for stock quotes, etc?
What you mean like all the iPhone 5 leaks that just magically happened pretty much on the day of the official Samsung Galaxy SIII launch.
Yeah, pretty underhand huh
I still can't help but think they may still be in bed with each other in the maps department. Google announces their new tech and Apple will show how they'll utilize it, maybe even chipping in their own knowledge (from the C3 buyout). I'm thinking these Apple Map Rumors were just created because they have iOS6 prototypes running Google's new map service. It's not impossible, though I know unlikely since Android vs iOS is always a heated issue for them. But maybe, just maybe, they're still friends.
TomTom is tanking since they screwed up their iOS app introduction. They have announced a delisting from the stock market for this year.
Yes.
Although this is likely, it isn't necessarily a requirement. As long as Google's announcement is comparable, it will be an embarrassment for Apple since they are making such a big deal about unveiling something despite having been beaten to the punch.
The places still exist, they are just blurry in the software...
And that's good too otherwise whole streets in Germany would have disappeared.
Really? Maybe it's changed. There used to be a button on the website maps. I notified them of a one-way street that they had labelled wrongly about a year ago on their website maps, and I first got an email acknowledging they were looking into it, then about three weeks later an email confirming that I was right, and they'd fixed it. I agree though that there are a lot of glitches.
Maps will definitely not be the main thing at WWDC. While Google spends top dollars and marketing effort on the launch of a new maps functionality it is Apple that is rumored to launch a slew of hardware and software updates and innovations.
Maps is great to have, but hardly worth to become the main topic at a keynote...
It all seems too coincidental.
To me, and I'm probably wrong, this is at 9:30am to give Google their place to unveil the new maps app first, since it's theirs.
Then at 10am, Apple announce iOS 6, featuring the new and improved Google Maps with 3D views, etc.
Wasn't it Apple that introduced the iPhone in 2007? A market that was considered mature and dominated by Nokia, Sagem, Motorola and Ericsson? Where are they now? Who is dominant? Who had the upper hand in experience then, and who had the vision?
i agree. Improved Maps would be great but there a ton of other improvements that assume priority such as UI and Siri. And dont forget the MBP and iMac updates.
Personally, I prefer to have all of my maps on my phone, so that I don't need to use mobile data to stream them or spend time entering a couple routes in a new area just to make sure most likely options are already cached. Thus, I happily paid my $30 for Navigon and got my fully built-in maps. Therefore, I am not looking forward to an Android style nav app, but I am sure carriers love it.
In any case, I am sure there are many more price conscious users who would rather get a nav app for free, so Apple could make them happy, but when Apple offers an app that used to be supplied by third parties (such as MotionX), people start grumbling that Apple is screwing other developers and that it is a bad partner.
That`s not what I meant. Let me try to ask it in a different way. If there can be a standalone app, why didn't apple remove the goggle maps from iOS early and let Google come up with their app. There is Google earth app already.