Apple Developing Navigation Software For iPhone?
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Apple Developing Navigation Software For iPhone?
Close to a year and a half after Apple acquired PlaceBase - a mapping software developer, the company may finally be looking at building an in-house navigational software application; something that we have been anticipating for a while.
The Apple job board has a number of new openings for iOS engineers who have experience working on navigational software.
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I hope its fully installable rather than relying on constant map downloading.
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apple might fail here. Tom Tom works perfectly fine without a hassle on my phone, now why would anyone really want to try apple's navigation app when they're always trying to rip off people :/ that's just me though lol
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The question is what can apple bring to the table? The make good hardward, but on the software side, what can they do that isn't already out there. There's already enough 3rd party apps available, and if it isn't free why would you shell out more cash? I'm sure the apple fanboys would buy because its apple, besides that, I don't see a need for it.
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I'll bet if it will be 100% free for all iphones.So this way people don't have to spend $100+ on a navigation software like TomTom.But like others are saying they will have to bring something new to the table
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if apple start to charge people for this then my self and many others will definitely switch to other phones
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This is gonna kill the TomTom/
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Most likely Apple's in house GPS app will be a Google Map clone with turn by turn live instructions but nothing special really. Data will be downloaded live like in Google right now. Considering Google Map's maturity I bet you Apple's replacement will be sub-par.
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I wish the Maps app was a GoogleMaps5 clone like on Andriod. Google maps if far better than iPhone maps
