Comments on: Apple Purchase of Placebase Confirmed: Goodbye Google Maps?

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By: Tech Industry News » Blog Archive » Apple’s New Map Team Job: What It Really Means

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:01:21 +0000

[...] the search giant both with the creation of its own in-house Mapping team and, back in October, the acquisition of PlaceBase, a rival mapping service to Google [...]

By: Apple’s New Map Team Job: What It Really Means

Apple’s New Map Team Job: What It Really Means — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:01:37 +0000

[...] the search giant both with the creation of its own in-house Mapping team and, back in October, the acquisition of PlaceBase, a rival mapping service to Google [...]

By: Yup, Google Maps on the iPhone Shows Ads

Yup, Google Maps on the iPhone Shows Ads — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:23:40 +0000

[...] Maybe thats why Apple bought their own mapping company. [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:25:06 +0000

Heh… Apple performed a seamless transition to Intel that didn’t break any legacy applications during the transition (thanks to Rosetta) years after OS X was created….and you think that swapping out the underlying Maps provider is something Apple forgot to code their SDK to handle? You must be joking.

To think that Apple didn’t plan for possibly using other Maps technology is pretty naive.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:23:04 +0000

See http://www.pushpin.com/api/1.3/docs/findplace.html

then go back to the API – you don’t have to do anything with policy data you can do anything you would like just like Google maps it is an example…

API is here: http://www.pushpin.com/api/1.3/docs/index.html

see all of the other examples – dare I say google it?

By: giovanni1975

giovanni1975 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:59:34 +0000

From what i see of the demo, this sort of information would be useful to such a tiny percentage of people. It’s general features for the layman equates to Google Maps’ offerings.
And I bet none of this policy data is available outside the US so what is the point?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:22:26 +0000

The Youtube app won’t be effected unless google blocks all safari users. It’s just streaming media in an app window. The Mapkit and Google API info above are something totally separate and work on a fundamental level of the iPhone SDK.

By: Ales

Ales — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:02:26 +0000

And more importantly – what about Europe and other parts of the world?

By: Ales

Ales — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:54:22 +0000

What about Youtube ….

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:50:04 +0000

PS Take a look – I would rather have this any day http://www.policymap.com/
google maps was never this good – see demo.

Adam above do some research nothing is going to break it is only going to get better and it looks like they have indeed proven themselves.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:34:26 +0000

The only developers that need to be worried about overhauling their code are web designers trying to make it as iPhone developers and use javascript and the google maps api – if you are a developer and actually program Objective C and use Mapkit nothing will break.

By: Adam Jackson

Adam Jackson — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:50:06 +0000

That’s a point I make all of the time. There is a startup for everything these days. There is always a missing link that you could save millions by partnering with someone instead of doing it yourself.

However, what you lose is assurance that the partnership will last.

Apple has actually built Google Maps in to their computers and phones so deeply that it would actually break applications and key features of the Mac & iPhone OS to remove it or pull the plug.

This was a stupid decision for Apple. In Mail I can click on an address and view it in Google Maps or I can see where my friends are on Foursquare for the iPhone using a Google MAP API that Apple puts in Xcode. This is dumb. Because now Apple is eating out of Google’s hands because they now hold the key.

Sure I’m exaggerating but I hate when companies rely heavily on unproven or small time startups for long term partnerships. Yes google is difference but not really.

By: Patrick Harrington

Patrick Harrington — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:02:55 +0000

This.

Haven’t looked at the iPhone mapping APIs in a while, but I doubt there is anything Google-y about the way that the apps tie into the Maps service.

All they would need to do is make sure they’re reproducing the same functionality, and it *should* slip right in.