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Apple acquires online mapping company Poly9 - report
- avar 16y agoIt'll be really interesting to see what Apple does for map data. MapQuest and Bing just announced that they'll be using OpenStreetMap. If Apple goes that route it'll be Google Maps with its walled garden model v.s. the rest supporting an open source project.
- cageface 16y agoSounds like Apple is trying to cut its dependencies on Google services.
- pavs 16y agoMakes perfect sense. If Google didn't increase its footprint with android, they would been at the mercy of Apple and other mobile OS manufacturers. Maps is one of the important features of iphone it makes perfect sense that they are working on their own product instead of depending on a competition. Now, consumers will have another factor to take in to account before choosing one phone over another.
- bhellman1 16y agoWhat about YouTube?
- bhellman1 16y agoIt's a great brainstorming exercise to try to figure out what Apple is planning.
- sgoraya 16y agoSlightly ironic since Poly9 was fairly Flash heavy (not all but many of their maps were Flash - they developed several geo related API's too).
- ynniv 16y agoHow is that ironic? Tough to deliver a 3D globe in a web page without Flash right now. And the rendering engine is only a small part of compiling and delivering geo data and imagery efficiently.
- sgoraya 16y agoApple purchasing a developer of Flash, seemed to me, a little bit ironic; just for irony's sake I suppose. >Tough to deliver a 3D globe in a web page without Flash right now. And the rendering engine is only a small part of compiling and delivering geo data and imagery efficiently. Agreed - and poly9 does/did so much more than a few maps in flash.