so you have no facts. as i stated, your argument is based on your assumptions and opinions. google would have said if they had rejected it, other companies have done before. PLUS you have totally ignored the articles i linked to where GOOGLE have explicitly said that THEY ARE NOT MAKING IT FOR THE IPHONE!!!! and Swype have said in June that they are still developing it, ergo it's not been submitted yet, as you cannot submit a half developed app to be reviewed........
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so you have no facts. as i stated, your argument is based on your assumptions and opinions. google would have said if they had rejected it, other companies have done before. PLUS you have totally ignored the articles i linked to where GOOGLE have explicitly said that THEY ARE NOT MAKING IT FOR THE IPHONE!!!! and Swype have said in June that they are still developing it, ergo it's not been submitted yet, as you cannot submit a half developed app to be reviewed........
The Mapquest 4 Mobile application does everything and more than the Google Navigation application does. And their database seems (to me) to be more up-to-date. Here in Pittsburgh, for example, Google Maps is wrong all the time
edit: It gives you spoken turn-by-turn directions, even while backgrounded/off.
edit: It gives you spoken turn-by-turn directions, even while backgrounded/off.
I explained myself in the other thread. The websites you posted said GN will not be coming to the iPhone. They don't give a reason. So, you can write in caps all you want, just as long as you practice adequate reading comprehension. So basically, you have no facts either.
Then why did Apple reject Google Maps Navigation?
We don't know if it has been rejected. After all, Google Voice has not been "rejected" yet either. Google wants their name on everything. There's no reason they wouldn't want to develop this for the iPhone. Remember what Eric Schmidt said; Google makes money everytime someone uses an iPhone too. Google is not in the hardware business, they are in the ads business.
This is the one thing I miss from my previous phone (Nexus One) so glad it's coming to the iPhone.
hang on, so google saying themselves that navigation will not come to the iPhone means it's not googles fault? i have a fact from that article, which has comments from people at google saying they're not bringing it to the iPhone. how can that be anyone elses fault but googles? you don't seem to have any logic to what you say!
Google not bringing GN to the iPhone means just that. Nothing more. There is absolutely no evidence stating otherwise.
It's like me saying "I will not be going to the store today". Does this sentence mean that I do not want to go to the store? Of course not. My car could be broken. I could hate the store. The store could have banned me. It could mean anything. That statement is very vague. Really now, are you in high school?
google said they are not bringing it to the iPhone. that is a very clear statement. they said they are bringing it to other platforms, but not the iPhone. Apple wouldn't actually make any decision until it has entered the app store process for review. If it had been rejected, it would have been well reported online. Since Google said they're not bringing it to the iPhone, its clear that its Google is the ones responsible, not apple. they didn't say that they couldn't bring it to iPhone, just that they will not. your analogies are flawed. I'm not american, so we don't do high school. don't bring this down to trying to insult my intelligence.
I'm not sure if AT&T has much to do with this. Google Navigation is on the Captivate.
There we go!
So it's not AT&T's fault... hmm.
and it hadn't been submitted to the app store so not apples fault...
That's very true, but many other phones on AT&T had MMS and tethering for a while but AT&T were blocking it for the iPhone. They even admitted as such. Seems that AT&T has a separate set of rules for the iPhone.
One can't really blame Google for being hesitant to develop apps for the iPhone. Think about it from Google's point of view.
How does Google make their money? Ads. How do they benefit from mobile devices? Getting people to use Google products and therefore see Google Ads.
Google wants as many Google Apps on as many devices as possible to get the most viewers. The reason I think Google has been hesitant is the App Store submission process. After what happened with Google Voice I don't think they want to deal with developing an application that may have a chance of being approved and another chance of being stuck in Limbo.
thanks for your response, it's nice to get a balanced and fair response, and i think you make some very good points. just a shame that google have said no, for whatever their reason is.