More Google iPhone Apps on the Way

[Much Ado]

Not concerned about the security of your work?
Not concerned with Google ending up indexing your information?

This is my only concern about Apple cosying up to Google.

Does this mean Google will end up with all of my iTunes preferences, and so on?

And, if GPS is adapted to Google Maps- exactly where i am at any given point?

It's all tin-foil hat stuff, but it is a concern, nonetheless.

 

[grappler]

The thing with the GPS..

It's all about update-speed of the location.. if you just occasionally need to know where you are (to find - for instance - a nearby coffeeshop) you can perfectly use triangulation of the GSM-antennae (at least in europe that service has been around for years.. tie that in with googlemaps and you've got quite a nice goodie).

If you want to use it as a navigator (think TomTom), triangulation will probably not have a high enough refreshrate. And too: GPS navigation requires constant calculations to see if you're still on the right track and recalculate the entire route if you deviate too much.. that would be too big of a strain on the battery to be useful imho.

Btw.. gps-enabling: ever heard of bluetooth-gps modules? It may just be a Software-Update away 😛

Recalculating a route is basically a graph traversal, and isn't part of 'GPS'. It may not be a real simple algorithm, but it won't drain the battery compared with all the other things the phone is doing.

Rapidly updating the position, on the other hand, could drain the battery...

 

[grappler]

This is my only concern about Apple cosying up to Google.

Does this mean Google will end up with all of my iTunes preferences, and so on?

And, if GPS is adapted to Google Maps- exactly where i am at any given point?

It's all tin-foil hat stuff, but it is a concern, nonetheless.

Thing is, they don't need GPS in the phone in order to pinpoint where you are. The towers your phone talks to recieve enough information to pinpoint you pretty well. They might as well let the customer benefit from that...

 

[sananda]

The thing with the GPS..

It's all about update-speed of the location.. if you just occasionally need to know where you are (to find - for instance - a nearby coffeeshop) you can perfectly use triangulation of the GSM-antennae (at least in europe that service has been around for years.. tie that in with googlemaps and you've got quite a nice goodie).

If you want to use it as a navigator (think TomTom), triangulation will probably not have a high enough refreshrate. And too: GPS navigation requires constant calculations to see if you're still on the right track and recalculate the entire route if you deviate too much.. that would be too big of a strain on the battery to be useful imho.

Btw.. gps-enabling: ever heard of bluetooth-gps modules? It may just be a Software-Update away 😛

i didn't know you could tiangulate your position with a gsm phone. is that service here in the uk?

 

[jwa276]

I really hope the maps widget will eventually support either my TomTom Bluetooth GPS receiver or the gsm triangulation method. This is by far the biggest lacking thing for the gmap app. Having a method of pinpointing your current position would be CLUTCH.

Pair it with google's amazing local search (since you're always online), and you've got the most powerful navigator on the market... Hands down.

 

[4thehead]

wow.. a topsites list for iPhone apps

This is a pretty cool idea.. It's a topsites exclusively for iPhone apps.

Have a look..
http://www.apprater.com