Comments on: Apple mapping a future without Google in iOS 6?

By: Attila Von Stryker

Attila Von Stryker — Sun, 13 May 2012 02:18:15 +0000

Actually Google does indeed charge for this map data, that is why many many companies have implemented open street in to their applications, which is a crowd sourced open licensed project.

By: Attila Von Stryker

Attila Von Stryker — Sun, 13 May 2012 02:14:01 +0000

Actually Apple did indeed buy the company behind Siri.
Siri was a DARPA funded common linguistics system for deployed user interfaces.
Nuance tech is used as the back end of this system.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 12 May 2012 14:08:28 +0000

I am 99% sure that Apple is in charge of updating the iOS Google Maps application. Be pissed at Apple for not introducing those features.

By: internetworld7

internetworld7 — Sat, 12 May 2012 09:58:13 +0000

Thieves not “thiefs”. It’s called spellcheck reTard.

By: All Things That Move

All Things That Move — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:06:27 +0000

Makes sense for Apple to own its own mapping tech and if it can distance itself form Google even further in the process then great. The new photo-realistic mapping looks stunning. Apple’s philosophy of taking existing tech and simply making it better and more intuitive would appear to be in place here. iOS6 can’t come soon enough!

By: danlaurence

danlaurence — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:01:45 +0000

By: deeceefar2

deeceefar2 — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:19:49 +0000

*gone from android on my G1 to iOS on iPhone 4

By: deeceefar2

deeceefar2 — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:18:11 +0000

Google doesn’t make any money off of Navigation or the Maps themseleves, only in the places and advertising for business that is on the side. So this is not really a big loss to Google so there is no real pressure for them to update these apps.

Having gone from google navigate even on my crappy G1 I can say it is a far superior product to maps on iPhone or even any other navigation product I’ve used. I’m skeptical that Apple will be releasing a product with navigation, I would expect to see merely a jazzed up maps product. Navigation maps cost more, most companies that own the vector and satellite images specify that they can’t be used for turn-by-turn navigation. Google’s products originally had this limitation as well.

Now there are open mapping products out there, and conceivably with some good software engineering they could leverage the open sources to create an amazing self improving mapping product, but I just don’t see them coming out with that soon.

By: HeLLo

HeLLo — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:30:30 +0000

Relax iTard.So what is Apple going to copy from Google?.Notification bar, and now Google Maps?.Wow talk about thiefs I see.Typical iSheep always pulling something from where the sun dont shine.

By: Terrence Martineau

Terrence Martineau — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:39:56 +0000

..good! Google leaves Google Maps on iOS ten steps behind the android version.. no turn-by-turn navigation.. no options for mass transit, cycling etc, etc… how many times has it been upgraded? it’s ridiculous.. it doesn’t even have half the feature of the web version of Google Maps.. they HAVE to ditch it because it leaves iOS leaps and bounds behind android in OS level mapping and navigation..