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> Everybody who owns an iPhone 5 or everyone who has > considered buying an iPhone 5 now knows that Google > (and now Android) has a superior maps offering.
by rimantas 14y ago
> Everybody who owns an iPhone 5 or everyone who has
> considered buying an iPhone 5 now knows that Google
> (and now Android) has a superior maps offering.
No. First of all new maps is feature of iOS6 which is no in hands of more than 50% of iOS users not feature of iPhone 5.
Second, there are other places in the world where new maps app is as good or better than old one was. And we finally got turn-by-turn navigation.
> They've never been a data company as it is
They've never been mobile phone makers before iPhone too, remember? "PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in".
Let's not forget their map-related acquisitions and partnership with companies in the field.
- salman89 14y agoI buy that the maps is a feature of iOS6, but remember that iOS5 doesn't run on the iPhone 5 (AFAIK). This means that the maps feature becomes part of the purchasing decision. Would love to see the number of iPhone users in the markets where the new maps app is as good or better. I would go further and say this doesn't matter. A map application is only useful if it works all the time, and if you have the confidence that it will always work. They had not made a phone before, but they were still a consumer hardware company. I don't think its fair to say that they can now just become a legitimate mapping company. NAVTEQ, TomTom, Google, etc, have spent hundred of thousands of man hours developing those expertise.
- fpgeek 14y agoThere's a difference between "They're not going to just walk in" before they've tried and "They're not going to just walk in" after they've tried and slipped on a banana peel. One is a prediction, the other is a statement of fact.