Re:Petition Google for iOS Maps
by trackofalljades on Thursday September 20, 2012 @03:39AM
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If they have made any such announcement, their search engine sure can't seem to find it for me...
Re:Petition Google for iOS Maps
by erikpukinskis on Thursday September 20, 2012 @04:06AM
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http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/google-maps-ios-app/
The trick was to narrow the date range to exclude recent chatter surrounding the actual launch of iPhone 5: https://www.google.com/search?q=google+standalone+maps+ios&#...
Google executive Jeff Huber says: "We look forward to providing amazing Google Maps experiences on iOS."
While this more than likely means that they are going to create an app, it leaves it open enough that it could just mean that they're going to improve their mobile web app version of maps.
They essentially issued a "no comment" recently but wishy washily commited to supporting multiple operating systems.
I'd imagine they're hedging their bets. Working on an iOS version while improving the web app version because you never know what will happen in Apple's App review process.
The Google Maps app can't come soon enough; I'm only glad that I have TomTom and my car's built-in navigation to fall back on because I have no faith in the software Apple built.