Will Google Maps be accepted by Apple?

[movieator]

If Apple doesn't approve Google's Map app because it "duplicates functionality" blah blah blah, that's total bs.
Apple's map app has no functionality.

 

[Redjericho]

But obviously only one that doesn't replicate everything the previous app could do, such as offering an API to other apps or intercepting links from mail or Safari...

And this is what a jailbreak is for

 

[cotak]

If they don't it's likely at some point Apple will see an anti-trust investigation. Just like how MS got it with IE.

 

[Redjericho]

I think if they were going to release Google Maps, it woud have already happen. Google and world has known about Google Maps being removed since June of this year. Google readied iOS users by releasing a YouTube app. Nothing has been said about a Google Maps app. Expect the worse with a Google Maps app not coming to iOS.

All google had to do for the YouTube app was make it properly display m.youtube.com

But maps was a very popular app, it was weaved and integrated throughout ios, and apple won't allow this for a normal app in the app store. Google has to cut out all of that interlacing of maps, which takes quite a long time, and if they miss a single thing, apple can deny it as many times as they want.

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My guess is to appease small businesses and Google Places stuff.

EDIT: And, of course, to harvest user data.

Google can have all my data that it wants, as long as they release a quality product.

 

[Deliro]

I don't think you understand how Google earns a profit... No, is not by selling ads! They sell information!

They also want folks to convert to their mobile platform. This is a great opportunity for them to do that. Apple maps is sorely lacking and if I were google I would be smiling from eat to ear looking at Apple's offering.

I've never been a super fan of Apples overall software packages, however they always had a clean user experience. Maps current iteration is post Steve Jobs, and I think a glimpse of some of what is to come with Apples future offerings. Not only is the content just not there, but the experience (at least for me) is shoddy.

 

[Hawkeye411]

Yes

 

[Deliro]

And really to be fair, it tooks years for Google to provide its current iteration of their maps. Do we all remember when it first came to market? Yahoo and MapQuest had better offerings.

As I said there is no real incentive for Google to provide their maps as an app. Their licensing agreement was over, now unless you are an insider was it Apple that wanted to sever the idea of having Googles maps packaged into iOS? Or did Google want to end their relationship on that front?

Maps will no doubt get better with the type of resources Apple can afford, but it will take months for it to become a viable option to Google Maps.

 

[lazard]

And really to be fair, it tooks years for Google to provide its current iteration of their maps. Do we all remember when it first came to market? Yahoo and MapQuest had better offerings.

As I said there is no real incentive for Google to provide their maps as an app. Their licensing agreement was over, now unless you are an insider was it Apple that wanted to sever the idea of having Googles maps packaged into iOS? Or did Google want to end their relationship on that front?

Maps will no doubt get better with the type of resources Apple can afford, but it will take months for it to become a viable option to Google Maps.

months? quite the optimist.

 

[Kurwenal]

As if Apple doesn't do this. I at least want it too work....

The question was why Google would want to provide a map app for iOS. That Apple also collects, and uses, data only helps to demonstrate why Google might want to do this. And, yes, I agree, I want it [to] work as well.

That said, on the data collection and sale spectrum, Apple isn't even in the same universe as Google.