“The highlight was the debut of Apple’s in-house mapping service after years of development, a direct challenge to the same Google service that is one of the most popular functions on both Android smartphones and the iPhone,” Gupta and Oreskovic report. “Apple’s new mobile software — the iOS6 — will be available in the fall. It comes with a mapping system ‘built from the ground up,’ said software chief Scott Forstall.”
Gupta and Oreskovic report, “It will be replacing Google Maps… Now Apple will do its utmost to reduce its reliance on Google, said Colin Gillis, analyst with BGC Partners. ‘What happens if one day Google decides to not provide Apple with maps,’ said Gillis. ‘You can’t have that kind of dependency on a competitor.’”
MacDailyNews Take: As fun aside, in Gillis’ sentence, replace “Google” with “Samsung” and “maps” with “chip fabrication or displays.”
You can’t have that kind of dependency on a competitor.
Gupta and Oreskovic report, “Apple’s map service comes with three-dimensional images of cities called ‘Flyover’ along with real-time traffic updates and also turn-by-turn navigation… And Siri, the innovative voice-activated iPhone search-feature… will now also be available on iPads and recites a larger database of answers, especially sports, restaurants and movies. Siri is also integrated into the new mapping service so users can ask for step-by-step directions… Forrester analyst Charles Golvin said that Apple’s new [Maps] service featured various nice touches, demonstrating Apple’s ability to take an experience offered by rivals and ‘go even further.’”
The full article, in which Gupta and Oreskovic inexplicably and laughably report that “Amazon.com Inc’s cheaper Kindle Fire is challenging Apple in tablets,” here.
MacDailyNews Take: Newsflash for Poornima Gupta and Alexei Oreskovic: Amazon’s tiny screen Kindle Fire is a flop and is not, we repeat, not challenging Apple in “tablets.” Do a better job reporting facts and not inserting opinions or, in this case, fantasies, lest your credibility be irrecoverably tarnished. See related articles below.
As for the rest: It’s about time that Google begins to reap what it sowed.
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