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Apple to Continue Using Google Maps in iOS 5?
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Evidently, you don't understand business. By using Google Maps, Google has the ability to data-mine information off the iPhone, giving them a chance to get revenue off of the iOS platform.
Google and Apple are competing against each other right now. Right now, Google earns a lot of revenue from iOS users by virtue of default Google search and Maps. Apple needs to cut Google out of iOS entirely.
This is why Apple bought out Placebase and Poly9, two major geolocation/map companies.
The Maps app provides the barebones service. There are apps in the App Store that provide GPS functionality. Also, you can download another maps app from the App Store if you really want to.
There are apps in the App Store to get that functionality.
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Absolutely.
Besides, yellow tinted screens and backlight bleeding are a perfect match for maps.
Everything is Magic when you're wearing Apple goggles.
If Apple really wants to get away from Google, they should dump the POS YouTube app and have media redirect to the Safari YouTube webpage/app.
If they dump Youtube app (made by Apple, not Google) and redirect to Youtube webapp (made by Google, not Apple) they don't get away from Google, they get away from Apple
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No but I find it sad that they have been horribly wrong even in the Chicago area. I can understand more rural places might not get the attention but I am talking miles off the target in a heavily populated area.
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No but I find it sad that they have been horribly wrong even in the Chicago area. I can understand more rural places might not get the attention but I am talking miles off the target in a heavily populated area.
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I could not disagree more. It's the best way to obtain public transit routes, it replaces the yellow pages, it rarely ever comes up "location not found".
Have you used other free map apps? I have. Frustration at best. Incomplete data. Not aware of relevant places in my vicinity.
I have been reading comments on this forum for a long while and never felt the need to post my own, but yours caused me to register so I cold refute you.
I am sure that the app can be improved but it serves me so well at the moment, I consider all of my other data consumtion to be a bonus for all the function I get using this app alone.
Save your condemnation for apps that you have actually spent extra money on.
I could not disagree more. It's the best way to obtain public transit routes, it replaces the yellow pages, it rarely ever comes up "location not found".
Have you used other free map apps? I have. Frustration at best. Incomplete data. Not aware of relevant places in my vicinity.
I have been reading comments on this forum for a long while and never felt the need to post my own, but yours caused me to register so I cold refute you.
I am sure that the app can be improved but it serves me so well at the moment, I consider all of my other data consumtion to be a bonus for all the function I get using this app alone.
Save your condemnation for apps that you have actually spent extra money on.
I really hope Apple improves the maps app with or without Google's map data.
I'd love turn-by-turn navigation with offline maps support(pick a country/city download the whole map for it, great for traveling abroad).
Revamped Notifications, Widgets/Live Icons and Much improved Maps app with lots of functions would really make iOS 5 for me.
Pretty much my three biggest wishes for iOS.
I'd love turn-by-turn navigation with offline maps support(pick a country/city download the whole map for it, great for traveling abroad).
Revamped Notifications, Widgets/Live Icons and Much improved Maps app with lots of functions would really make iOS 5 for me.
Pretty much my three biggest wishes for iOS.
EXACTLY! While maps on iOS is useable it hasn't changed a lick and is simply smoked by Androids 5.5 maps! If they could just use googles current maps for android for iOS 5 I'd be happy as Hell until they come up with something better on their own. This is one area where I don't even know if Apple CAN come up with something better.
I've had Google maps fairly regularly give me the right street but the wrong address. As in, if I hadn't known exactly where I was going anyway I would have realized Google had me knocking on a door 10-15 houses away from the right one. This is a particular pain in the ass when your looking for a business, while in traffic, and the business doesn't have a huge sign posted.
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Oh? It is fully possible by others to be better - e.g. try Nokia's Ovi maps.
They may be cheating since they use maps provided by the individual operators and purchase maps made by 3rd source specialists around the world. Tomkat and Garmin are also known to make good maps available.
So why cannot Apple just focus on fixing the MacOS and do what they are good at, and leave it for me to decide who makes the best maps. I can afford to pay for them, and treasure my right to choose and hate to be told. Its a free world, and if I want pink maps with purple houses and can pay for it, who are you to tell me I cannot get it?
Of course it would. Unless you hold it wrong. Or look at it wrong. Or read it wrong. Or it will be the satellites fault. Or the carriers fault.
I'm not sure why Apple thinks it needs to concern itself with a maps service. They're years behind Google Maps and like everything else (ie. iBooks), they'll provide something with minimal functionality that looks better and claim it's as good as the competitors. Enough with the NIH syndrome!
IMO Apple should remove YouTube and Maps from iOS and allow Google to release their own Apps.
They could do a much better job.
They could do a much better job.
All map services get their base map data from the same place. Some of them modify it, but they all use the same base... In the US, it comes from the USGS. Essentially, they all should have the same base errors.
Apple will need to get a move on. But I am sure their maps would be even better if they really make it. They have a touch for making things amazing.
USGS does not provide all the road maps or even all the elevation maps. They provide generally a good base point but a lot of times cities will have other maps to lay on top of it and then there will be better survey data for areas that have better reading points.
But yeah for the most part same bases. There are only a handful of company that handle it all and put all that data together before they sell it off.
You do know that Google does not write Apple YouTube and Maps apps. They just use Google as a data source. They are crap because Apple failed to update them or make them any good. Add in the fact that they only get updated about once a year compared to Android were google can and does up date its apps threw out the year. Apple has access to the same data source Google is using for its maps.
As a map source I think google is great. As a route finder it I say it is ok at best. It rout finding algorthems are not nearly as good as like garmen or TomTom.