Google Outs 3D Maps For iOS Ahead of Apple

hypnosec writes "Apple announced during WWDC 2012 that it is going to ditch Google maps and bring out its own under iOS 6. So, Google started working and in fact raced ahead of Apple in providing 3D maps for iOS. Through a blog post, Google announced that it has now made 3D imagery available on its Google Earth for iOS app. Users of iPhone 4S, iPad 2 or new iPad, while using Google Earth for iOS app, will feel that they are virtually flying over cities.The feature, as of now, works only for 12 regions. Cities for which the 3D imagery is provided are from US with an expectation of a city in Rome. The U.S. cities include: Boulder, Colo., Boston, Charlotte, N.C., Lawrence, Kan., Long Beach, Calif., Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., San Diego, Santa Cruz, Calif., Tampa, Fla., Tucson, Ariz., and San Francisco, plus its East Bay and Peninsula neighbors, notes the blog post."

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oh just admit it

[superwiz]

Apple will always be a flash in a pan. They'll always come up with a concept and sulk when someone else thinks of how to do it better. It's not because of some anti-birth-right where they can't do it better just because they are "Apple." It's because they think they can do it all. And when you want to do the software, the hardware, the marketing, the sales, you have to get everything to align just right... all the schedules if nothing else. And when you do it and it works, it's great. But it happens much less often than when you have a software company which allows a bunch of hardware vendors to use the software and a bunch of retailers/providers to sell the hardware. If you get to concentrate, you get to develop core strengths. When you want to control the full retail-service-hardware-software stack, you are as weak as the weakest link. And you are guaranteed to eventually lose to those who allow for a few players to duke it out at each level of their stack. This is why they lost to PC. And this is why they lost (fata complete at this point) to Google. This is pretty much like MS developing MS Office for Apple back in the day. They did it mostly because they could.

Re:Google trying to save face, except it won't wor

[superwiz]

Haven't heard, have you? Samsung doubled the number of units they sold. This is despite injunctions and crap. Apple did not double the number of units they sold and Apple itself reduced estimates for its next quarter (ie, they are not releasing iPhone 5 anytime soon). Laughing at the Apple fanbois is going to be much more fun this time around... there is more of them, but they are just as fanatical and foaming at the mouth as they were 15 years ago. It's over. This time Steve is gone. There is no magic rescue by a cult figure. Last one out, turn off the lights.