With the arrival of iOS 6
(seeour articles here on what's new), and
major change has happened:abandonment of cards
Googlefor the benefit of a cartography now proposed by
Apple.
This one, withdeployment
fast iOS 6attracts the wrath of certain users, it is the
less than we can say, especially in countries like England or even
in the US.
We had mentioned theanswer
from Apple in this articleandrecruitment in
course to work on a major topic for Apple.
In the meantime, alternatives for example to the disappearance of Street View
had been mentioned innotre
article here on iPhoneet
there on iPad, while the question everyone is asking is:
When will there be a Google Maps app for the iPhone?.
A Google Maps application in preparation?
After all, the search giant did offer
a YouTube app on the App Store(on iPhone only) just before
the disappearance of the native app with iOS 6, we
talked about it here, then he must be working on Google Maps
for iPhone, you have to! There were even rumors that
the application would already be submitted and validated by Apple.
We learned today that no,Google has nothing in progress
validation at Applefrom the very mouth of Eric Schmidt, former
general director of Google and chairman of the company from now on: "Google
Inc. has not submitted a new Google Maps application to Apple Inc". Il ajoute
that they "have done nothing yet" and that they speak with Apple every
days.
To tell yourself what?
What choice for Google?
We imagine that the relationships areanything but cordial between the two
giants now opposed in iOS/Android antagonism, Steve Jobs
having always considered the latter as stolen. We also suspect that
Google was well aware of the difficulty of creating an application
mapping from almost nothing, having himself worked
on the subject for years with up to 7000 people employed on the
subject according to some. Google executives suspected that Apple
would encounter difficulties (and in addition they have access to the betas as
Apple developers and were of course able to compare the two solutions well
before the release of iOS 6). They could therefore have prepared and submitted a
application if they had wished it in due time, and yet
nothing, almost a week after the release of iOS 6.
Google actually has two possibilities:let Apple sink in
the subject by not providing an alternative on the iOS platformet
thus mechanically giving an advantage to its Android OS, orbenefit
of iOS users' frustration to return through the App window
Storeafter being taken out and thus displaying his ads and others
means of monetization with millions of iOS users.
The question may therefore arise of the choice that Google will make. She will be able to
also wonder whether Apple will validate this application, but we do not
is clearly not there yet... This could explain why both
giants have so much to say to each other...
But for us users, it would be good if they didn't procrastinate too much
for a long time and that we can quickly benefit from the choice.
non ?
In the meantime, read on the subject:
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.
