Google Maps is in the Appstore!

[scifan57]

Exactly! You can receive targeted ads based on your current location. You could be web surfing and receive an ad for the pizza place down the block.

 

[AQ_OC]

Why is anyone in the free maps business? Because it gives them a license to collect tons of user data, which they can then sell, or leverage into bigger profits by targeting ads more precisely. Targeted ads command much higher rates than unfocused ads. If you assume it's about money, you won't often be wrong. When you cannot see the connection, start with the money, then work backward.

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But this is what cause the frak between apple and google. Google wanted the data, apple refused to give it.

Apple still doesn't need to play in this ballpark. They are the most profitable company in the world and they got there without maps. You can't tell me they are so hard up for profit that they need to spend years chasing after google and its chump change. Further, Apple does need maps to get your location...you are on their OS. Google is the one needing an entry....

 

[LannyC]

It's not just your location. It's all the stores you visit, and how long you spend there, and the route you took to get there. If your cellphone is on, theoretically you can be tracked down every aisle of the Wal-Mart, and they'd know where you stopped to pick things from the shelves. They might be interested to know where your kids go to school, what billboards you see on your commute, how much you speed on the highway. This is all info they can sell to third parties, to improve their chances of selling you stuff you may or may not need. Cynical, perhaps. Paranoid, not hardly.

As for having enough money, what rich person ever admitted reaching THAT point? No such thing, not even Apple is immune from greed. Oops, make that "obligation to their stockholders."

milliHelen: amount of beauty required to launch one ship.

 

[dhewson777]

It's not just your location. It's all the stores you visit, and how long you spend there, and the route you took to get there. If your cellphone is on, theoretically you can be tracked down every aisle of the Wal-Mart, and they'd know where you stopped to pick things from the shelves. They might be interested to know where your kids go to school, what billboards you see on your commute, how much you speed on the highway. This is all info they can sell to third parties, to improve their chances of selling you stuff you may or may not need. Cynical, perhaps. Paranoid, not hardly.

As for having enough money, what rich person ever admitted reaching THAT point? No such thing, not even Apple is immune from greed. Oops, make that "obligation to their stockholders."

milliHelen: amount of beauty required to launch one ship.

I just hope people are not using Google Maps to navigate Walmart!

 

[AQ_OC]

It's not just your location. It's all the stores you visit, and how long you spend there, and the route you took to get there. If your cellphone is on, theoretically you can be tracked down every aisle of the Wal-Mart, and they'd know where you stopped to pick things from the shelves. They might be interested to know where your kids go to school, what billboards you see on your commute, how much you speed on the highway. This is all info they can sell to third parties, to improve their chances of selling you stuff you may or may not need. Cynical, perhaps. Paranoid, not hardly.

As for having enough money, what rich person ever admitted reaching THAT point? No such thing, not even Apple is immune from greed. Oops, make that "obligation to their .....

Come now, apple makes many times the profit of google and they can already track your phone all over creation. They are better off doing what they do best than starting a long slog of negative publicity to build a better map system than google's. It makes no sense and stockholders want things to make sense.

 

[iJamesH]

I just hope people are not using Google Maps to navigate Walmart!

Well the way Walmart moves their stuff we may end up having to

 

[KevinJS]

Well the way Walmart moves their stuff we may end up having to

I have a bit of insider knowledge here. They move it under black plastic wrap, presumably so that thieving truckers can't see what they are hauling and don't feel tempted to do a bit of early shopping.

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[tlbaker]

Why is everyone so hot for this app??


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[LannyC]

1. It's fast.
2. It's accurate.
3. Street view.
4. Mass transit directions.

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[scifan57]

1. It's fast.
2. It's accurate.
3. Street view.
4. Mass transit directions.

milliHelen: amount of beauty required to launch one ship.

Mass transit is apparently only available for certain cities, mine isn't included, at least not yet.

 

[tlbaker]

1. It's fast.
2. It's accurate.
3. Street view.
4. Mass transit directions.

milliHelen: amount of beauty required to launch one ship.

I guess I will have to play around with it then

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[HKey_Current_User]

Any rumors about a true iPad version? While the current version works on the 'pad, it isn't exactly "pretty."

 

[twerppoet]

Any rumors about a true iPad version? While the current version works on the 'pad, it isn't exactly "pretty."

Not that I know of, so lets start one.

It took, what, about four months for the iPhone YouTube app to go universal (for both iPad and iPhone)?

We only have this one data point, but going by the usual rules for Apple rumors (why should Google be immune?) this is obviously obviously enough for a good rumor monger.

and so . . .

We'll probably see the Google Maps app go universal some time in April 2013.

 

[Kaykaykay]

Any rumors about a true iPad version? While the current version works on the 'pad, it isn't exactly "pretty."

Google has only said that an iPad version is coming soon.

 

[LannyC]

The iPhone version seems to have set a new record for quick approval. Hope the universal version receives the same expedited consideration.

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