Comments on: Random thoughts: Apple’s 100,000 iPhone apps and the Google GPS app

By: m4tt

m4tt — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:10:06 +0000

also when did they move Fenway Park from Boston to New Jersey???
look at the bottom right of the you tube video with out playing it.

By: m4tt

m4tt — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:05:39 +0000

tell me if i am wrong but don’t we already have google maps on the iphone?
i will tell you i have tried to use it to get from point A to point B in the city and
it does not know where i am at.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:12:40 +0000

Dr, did you even watch the video? bs…

By: jimmyjbullcock

jimmyjbullcock — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:31:28 +0000

90% of the bulk of crap apps (crapps) are out there by first time coders who want to share their apps with friends/load onto their personal ipod/iphone but not pay the $99 fee for the luxury. (or jailbreak/blah blah blah..) imagine if the only way you could beta test your palm or winmo apps on a hard device was to release through a public storefront searched by millions….

Think of it as ‘hey ma, looky what I did’ and ma is all like ‘uncle jimmy, you have the apple phone right? billy says download his app “zoo butts extreme” you’ll love it he says..’

By: mtvfyrfytr

mtvfyrfytr — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:04:29 +0000

I like the way that Google touts how great their GPS program is because of the “Cloud”. Maps, POI, etc. are always up to date. I guess that would be great as long as you always have a internet connection.

I live in the foothills “Gold Country” of California, where you are lucky to get a signal (Edge sometimes, 3G No way). Google’s GPS would do me no good what so ever.

I’ll stick with Copilot NA. (Hey Doc, with the last update, Copilot now has true voice text-to-speech directions).

By: Peter Neal

Peter Neal — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:56:38 +0000

I think it is short sighted of Google to rely entirely on the cloud, though naturally you can understand why. It would be great if you could download the maps required for your route whilst still at home on Wifi before you set off, then you wouldn’t be effected by intermitant phone signals, which are significant problem here in the UK and imagine in the USA too. It would also solve the data charging problem when using your phone abroad, if you could download the basic maps required for the area you would be visiting. That would be great.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:55:04 +0000

Not only does it have voice navigation, it says street names, something that is missing on the TomTom iPhone app. Don’t worry Doc, it’ll be on the iPhone eventually.

By: Felysha

Felysha — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:37:06 +0000

Um…shortly before the 1 minute mark they say that voice guidance is a feature. That seems to me to elude to speaking exactly what you were wanting.