While Apple recently bought a
scompany for managing contact details of companies and services
localaswe could see it in this
article yesterday, now Bloomberg indicates that the Cuppertino firm would have
redeemedanother company, still in the field of
cartography and movement.
This time, it would be "HopStop.com", a service specializing in
calculation of trips by public transport, by bike and on foot.
It has a base covering more than 600 cities in the US and six others
pays.
An application is currently available on the App Store here, on y
findParis Strasbourgor
Rennesfor France.
It is very likely that the objective of the repurchase is linked to the addition in the
Apple's Plans version of a feature that Google already offers, namely
calculating routestaking into account public transport
(and other means of transportation?). So it's probably the technology and
the expertise of the company that Apple bought and we can hope that the
geographical coverage will be expanded for the entry into operation of such a service
in Plans.
The application also allows, like Waze for the road, to use
information from its users toshare
alerts relating to interruptions and problems on certain lines of
public transport.
To be continued!
And to test the app
it's here
i-nfo.fr - Official iPhon.fr app
By : Keleops AG
founder of the site. Computer engineer and Internet specialist where he has held various positions of responsibility, Laurent has been passionate about mobility since the arrival of "PDAs" in the 90s. Journalist for 4 years for the magazine Team Palmtops (Posse Presse) and author of several books on the iPad published by Pearson.
