Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won

Re:Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won by smackfu on Monday November 11, 2013 @10:46AM (#6712119)

It needs to be done in each app, by bypassing the system web browser or maps support. So Google may support it in their apps, but Apple doesn't in the system apps like Siri, Contacts, etc.

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Re:Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won by davydka on Monday November 11, 2013 @11:14AM (#6712276)

Yea I was very pleasantly surprised to see this worked when I switched back to ios from android. It allows me to stay within the google maps, gmail, and chrome ecosystem most of the time.

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Re:Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won by oaktowner on Monday November 11, 2013 @11:36AM (#6712402)

But that's only from within the Google ecosystem. Click on on a link in a non-Google app and you won't see Chrome as an option.

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Re:Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won by rsynnott on Monday November 11, 2013 @12:17PM (#6712661)

Well, you actually _will_ in quite a lot of apps these days, which is really a symptom of the problem.

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Re:Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won by myko on Monday November 11, 2013 @01:02PM (#6712920)

I think Google has an SDK to allow other developers to do this on iOS. Unfortunately I don't think many iOS developers know or care.

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