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Apple to Take iPhone's Maps App to 'the Next Level'
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Right. I'm just saying some of the pictures, such as street view, are most likely Google's property.
True, Apple need a way around that because Street View is awesome! So fun looking at city's using street view, I do it all the time!
Thats what I'm saying. If Apple wants to compete, they better have a plan for something like street view.
What I meant was a free TURN-BY-TURN navigation app, like the droid - at no charge, so you wouldn't need a third party one, like the tom tom one.
incorporating
Street view is pretty handy, but I'm thinking it will be a more gradual departure from GMaps. Apple will probably use the new map tech to make iPhone stand out from the competition until they can cook up their own solution to street view.
Street view is pretty handy, but I'm thinking it will be a more gradual departure from GMaps. Apple will probably use the new map tech to make iPhone stand out from the competition until they can cook up their own solution to street view.
The iPhone 1st, 2nd & 3rd gen may be goners at Apple!
But Apple has already abandoned the PPC Macs. A little quieter is the abandonment of most of the early 1st gen & maybe a little later Intel Macs including the 1st gen Intel Mac Pro. Its in Apple's history to abandon older technology when the new comes out. Apple was the first to introduce the 3.5" floppy, Steve Jobs was the first to get rid of it when he started his Next Computer CO Apple followed with the elimination of the floppy with the iMac introduction.
But Apple has already abandoned the PPC Macs. A little quieter is the abandonment of most of the early 1st gen & maybe a little later Intel Macs including the 1st gen Intel Mac Pro. Its in Apple's history to abandon older technology when the new comes out. Apple was the first to introduce the 3.5" floppy, Steve Jobs was the first to get rid of it when he started his Next Computer CO Apple followed with the elimination of the floppy with the iMac introduction.
Um I disagree with the iPhone 3G/3GS being many people's first 3G experience, lol. The main reason for iPhone accounting for 50% of cellular data usage in the US, not the world is:
* Large screen displaying more website information, zoom helps.
* Large 3G footprint of AT&T and initial contract cost being dropped to $199/mth.
* Basically overall better Webkit browsing experience for end users, that dealt with a 2" screen on a feature phone before.
If there will be a compatibility break, you can be assured its not because of a single in-house app like maps!! It'll be a hardware (cpu & chipset support) & OS break, along with different screen (resolution increase, maybe not size increase: to help reduce manufacturing costs: increase screen size means new cases to be used, seperate production line, more fees for handling 2 main device warranty's).
Hmm. Like Navteq (the world's larget map location provider). Considering Navteq is owned by Nokia, Apple could leverage a licensing agreement with Nokia to have it provided as a replacement to iPhone (giving the same features of Ovi Maps; without the co-branding etc). Apple could allow co-advertisement of Navteq - helping Nokia out with consumer awareness of their mapping solution to other players, while dropping the lawsuit against Apple
. However, that just gets Apple into the same sort of ship they're in with Google.
i don't like the "we've only just started" part of that. makes me think it'll be a while before anything becomes of this
Would Apple be able to say "no, users are not allowed to use Google Maps ever again"?
Ugh, this is stupid.
They've just started yet Google already has a super updated version of Maps on the Android phones. I want that, not something Apple is going to create that may take a year and still be less than what Google offers.
I guess my hope of seeing Google Maps Navigation on the iPhone is slim to none now.
They've just started yet Google already has a super updated version of Maps on the Android phones. I want that, not something Apple is going to create that may take a year and still be less than what Google offers.
I guess my hope of seeing Google Maps Navigation on the iPhone is slim to none now.
No. Google already said they are working with Apple to add navigation.
This job posting is about a longer-term plan.
What if this new mapping application allows you the following:
- Ability to route maps and send the full map data to your friend/family/colleague/etc (via chat!)
- Ability to receive mapped data like the above.
- ability to send during a chat your location, the recipient opens it even OFFLINE and can see your location and find it from THEIR location when online!
there is plenty more missing, even in Androids' Google Maps and Navigation.
- Pssst - You can do that on your iPhone.
The Maps app. UI is *all* Apple. They simply have a licensing agreement with Google to use that actual maps.
Plus didn't they acquire a mapping company recently?
I think they are seeing the demand for GPS apps and thinking if we had our own maps to license we could get a double bite of the cherry. Then again you have to offer up something better as an API. Wasn't the draw card of the company their overlay engine to geo-locate all sorts of information over the maps.
Sounds like they have all the talent they need to build there new Map program and API to let others take advantage. Maybe they just want to see what people might show up with as ideas for what the next level is.
I could see maps getting richer and richer layers of both historical and future information. The next question does Apple need a 3DSketching API to go with this like Sketchup but for any app to take advantage of. I'm sure the Pixar connections would have something to bring to the table here.
It's not about the maps...
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Something caught my eye a while back and I ended up at the PlaceBase web site.
Their mapping GUI and display were pedestrian (hehe) at best. For display, navigation, etc. they would be no competition for Google Maps (on the iPhone or anywhere else).
What PlaceBase offered was access to public and private databases, programs to analyze the data, and a method to overlay the results no a map.
With Google Maps, you can see [a somewhat dated] picture of your house from above (or from the street). Zoom out and you can seen how your house is GPS mapped within the community.
PlaceBase allows you to shows the demographics of:
[For purpose of illustration]
1) your house: cost, payment, number of baths, etc.
2) the people inside your house: age, income, political party, employment
Zoom out with PlaceBase and you can see how the Map of the community is broken down by whatever demographics are of interest.
You can see the residue of the PlaceBase site at:
http://www.pushpin.com/api/1.3/docs/
Be sure to try some of the examples.
Also, this site has some excellent examples of the PlaceBase PushPin system in use:
http://www.policymap.com/
Finally, this endeavor may be Apple's way of defining their relationship with Google...
...reminds me of the woman in the dentist's chair-- The dentist picks up the drill and says: "Open wide!".
The woman grabs the dentist's testicles and says: "We're not going to hurt each other, are we?"
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Something caught my eye a while back and I ended up at the PlaceBase web site.
Their mapping GUI and display were pedestrian (hehe) at best. For display, navigation, etc. they would be no competition for Google Maps (on the iPhone or anywhere else).
What PlaceBase offered was access to public and private databases, programs to analyze the data, and a method to overlay the results no a map.
With Google Maps, you can see [a somewhat dated] picture of your house from above (or from the street). Zoom out and you can seen how your house is GPS mapped within the community.
PlaceBase allows you to shows the demographics of:
[For purpose of illustration]
1) your house: cost, payment, number of baths, etc.
2) the people inside your house: age, income, political party, employment
Zoom out with PlaceBase and you can see how the Map of the community is broken down by whatever demographics are of interest.
You can see the residue of the PlaceBase site at:
http://www.pushpin.com/api/1.3/docs/
Be sure to try some of the examples.
Also, this site has some excellent examples of the PlaceBase PushPin system in use:
http://www.policymap.com/
Finally, this endeavor may be Apple's way of defining their relationship with Google...
...reminds me of the woman in the dentist's chair-- The dentist picks up the drill and says: "Open wide!".
The woman grabs the dentist's testicles and says: "We're not going to hurt each other, are we?"
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Even more reason why Apple would be looking for someone with a good idea of how this should work GUI wise instead of just API wise.
I agree, but I'd go a little further-- their product includes the infrastructure and
[legal] agreements that allow them to access and analyze data from many disparate sources.
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Right!
The Apple/Google GUI is a good one. Maybe, Apple and Google have reasons to cooperate-- each has something the other wants or needs.
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