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It seems awfully strange to nit pick about the savings. So what if it's saving him only £50 per year or whatever? Can we agree that it's nonzero? Ok great. Now
by stanleydrew 14y ago
It seems awfully strange to nit pick about the savings. So what if it's saving him only £50 per year or whatever? Can we agree that it's nonzero? Ok great. Now we can move on to addressing the meat of the comment.
Which is that iOS users have been denied the luxury of excellent and free turn-by-turn navigation available on Android, and this maps update does nothing to address that.
- fierarul 14y agoTo me, using navigation on the phone would be more of a convenience than a matter of savings. The 99 euro GPS I was talking about was the cheapest in store and it even had Traffic Message Channel (TMC), something the older one didn't. Also, the GPS would get super hot in the windshield -- I would have never used my phone instead! Anyhow, all that out of the way, I guess you are right that turn by turn would be nice on iOS.
- pcl 14y agoI've always assumed that iOS doesn't do live turn-by-turn directions in their native maps app in part because of licensing terms encumbering the routing data. Moving away from Google to their own algorithms (or to direct deals with other data providers) could free them of those terms. If so, I'd be surprised if they didn't add turn-by-turn directions to the app. Of course, they'd undercut all the paid turn-by-turn apps, but they haven't been shy about that sort of thing in the past.