Another hugely important point which is being conveniently omitted by the in favour of jetpack mode - those on iPhone 4s and iPhone 3GSs won't get jetpack mode at all. They'll lose street view and have it replaced by..... Absolutely nothing.
Of course they could decline every iOS update, but how many will know to do that? How many will just click the update button, as we're all trained to do for security reasons, and then a few days or weeks later notice that they've lost something really useful.
This may be Apple's biggest mis-step to date.
You know you can do that right? Right? You might think that would make your's and others' hyperbole about street view completely irrelevant. You want to keep using Google, keep using Google. No one is stopping you. I'm using iOS6 right now and have no problem at all using their web pages.
You can do the same with Bing maps, by the way, and there are also many, many mapping apps in the App Store. AND with the web-based ones you can even install a shortcut to the web page right on your home screen.
I believe that the reason that they don't have NYC 3d is because the new World Trade Center is under construction and I guess they will wait until its finish so they could put the new World Trade Center into its 3d maps. It would look better than just seeing buildings under construction in 3d
You know you can do that right? Right? You might think that would make your's and others' hyperbole about street view completely irrelevant. You want to keep using Google, keep using Google. No one is stopping you. I'm using iOS6 right now and have no problem at all using their web pages.
You can do the same with Bing maps, by the way, and there are also many, many mapping apps in the App Store. AND with the web-based ones you can even install a shortcut to the web page right on your home screen.
There's no street view when using Google Maps through mobile safari.
Also web apps are slow and clunky to use, and no substitute for a dedicated application.
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Originally Posted by kotatsu
Of course they could decline every iOS update, but how many will know to do that?
Tens of millions. I know people with their iPod touches still on 1.1.5. They buy a new one because they think they can't get apps.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Tens of millions. I know people with their iPod touches still on 1.1.5. They buy a new one because they think they can't get apps.
Since iOS5 updates are over the air and users are prompted to install them, so it will take a conscious user decision to decline future updates.
Oh the humanity! Is it really so hard for people who want google services to open a browser on their mobile device and type http://maps.google.com or http://www.youtube.com?
You know you can do that right? Right? You might think that would make your's and others' hyperbole about street view completely irrelevant. You want to keep using Google, keep using Google. No one is stopping you. I'm using iOS6 right now and have no problem at all using their web pages.
You can do the same with Bing maps, by the way, and there are also many, many mapping apps in the App Store. AND with the web-based ones you can even install a shortcut to the web page right on your home screen.
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Originally Posted by quesadilla5
Oh the humanity! Is it really so hard for people who want google services to open a browser on their mobile device and type http://maps.google.com or http://www.youtube.com?
You know you can do that right? Right? You might think that would make your's and others' hyperbole about street view completely irrelevant. You want to keep using Google, keep using Google. No one is stopping you. I'm using iOS6 right now and have no problem at all using their web pages.
You can do the same with Bing maps, by the way, and there are also many, many mapping apps in the App Store. AND with the web-based ones you can even install a shortcut to the web page right on your home screen.
There's no street view when using Google Maps through mobile safari.
Also web apps are slow and clunky to use, and no substitute for a dedicated application.
Era we might as well print out maps, or buy them. Time to party like it's 1999