Street View is Flash-based on the web version of Google Maps, so apparently they're blocking Street View.
They're also blocking porn apps, Flash itself, and any other malware or apps that don't meet their requirements. Apparently Apple "acting like a mobile carrier" hasn't mattered until right now with Street View…
Street View is Flash-based on the web version of Google Maps, so apparently they're blocking Street View.
They're also blocking porn apps, Flash itself, and any other malware or apps that don't meet their requirements. Apparently Apple "acting like a mobile carrier" hasn't mattered until right now with Street View…
I haven't read about this, but if what you say is true I won't be updating my software to iOS 6 and will likely shift from the iPhone to Android, which would be the first time. I'm sure Apple's 3D will be good, but it definitely can't replace StreetView.
This is just becoming a fanatics charter. Where I live and work, the UK and Ireland, Google maps has every single street, every single back road, every single country road in either country. Anything the could drive down. I can find roads close to where I was born, where I never drove, so off the beaten path were they. And its useful.
As of the last iOS 6 beta I download - 3, flyover view didn't have London, or Dublin, or anything smaller or in-between. Useless. The world is not the US, and even there you should be from Chicago or Cupertino.
@hill60 -" NSW Motor Registry" finding anything, without a street address, is pretty awesome. There is obviously more than one Registry in Sydney, or New South Wales. You do realise you can click on the pins and zoom in? Someone should try the same search in iOS 6
While 3D Flyovers are impressive, I have to remark a feature of StreetView that I would miss: the ability to literally walk into some street shops. For example, see http://goo.gl/maps/2YJCh. Click on the double '>>' on the floor and you get to walk in and see what the shop looks like.
I had never seen this before. My own cynicism tells me it's purely a marketing gimmick. Yes, it's cool, but how useful is it really? Clearly this business allowed the inside of their store to be photographed and displayed via maps... I just wonder if they paid for the privilege?
I like street view when I'm sitting home at my computer, but I rarely use it on my phone. What I do use when mobile are transit features and walking directions. I try to drive as little as possible. I was disappointed that bike directions were not available on the ios google map, but I could usually figure something out.
I've used a lot of regional transit apps, but once google had the transit thing integrated, I pretty much abandoned them. Earlier this year I was in NY, and got around faster and easier than ever before thanks to the google map on my iPhone.
About a year ago, I was in Moline, IL, and although I typically drive there, one day I decided to try out the public transit. At the time I was still using a Palm Pre (I won't get started on that right now), and while I was out that day, I got a message that my maps app had an upgrade available. So I downloaded it, and guess what... the upgrade was a Bing map. Which didn't have transit directions! I tried to get go to google maps on the browser, but it wouldn't let me... It kept taking me to the Bing map... this was after HP had taken over, but before they shut it down. So, that was the last straw for me. As soon as I got home, I got an iPhone. Two things about this:
Don't take features away.
Don't make me use your thing if I like somebody elses thing better than yours. Make your thing better than theirs, then I'll use it.
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What content are they blocking?
Originally Posted by SolipsismX
What content are they blocking?
Street View is Flash-based on the web version of Google Maps, so apparently they're blocking Street View.
They're also blocking porn apps, Flash itself, and any other malware or apps that don't meet their requirements. Apparently Apple "acting like a mobile carrier" hasn't mattered until right now with Street View…
Originally Posted by dacloo
The Steve Jobs reality distortion field found its new home at AppleInsider.
And so have you and three dozen of your ilk. What's your frigging point?
which is a bigger invasion of privacy -
photos of your house taken from a car driving down your street
or flyover photos of your backyard and the back of your house
not that i really care either way...
it's been said a ton already - street view is FAR more useful.
* Bad put-down of a great service.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Street View is Flash-based on the web version of Google Maps, so apparently they're blocking Street View.
They're also blocking porn apps, Flash itself, and any other malware or apps that don't meet their requirements. Apparently Apple "acting like a mobile carrier" hasn't mattered until right now with Street View…
I haven't read about this, but if what you say is true I won't be updating my software to iOS 6 and will likely shift from the iPhone to Android, which would be the first time. I'm sure Apple's 3D will be good, but it definitely can't replace StreetView.
This is just becoming a fanatics charter. Where I live and work, the UK and Ireland, Google maps has every single street, every single back road, every single country road in either country. Anything the could drive down. I can find roads close to where I was born, where I never drove, so off the beaten path were they. And its useful.
As of the last iOS 6 beta I download - 3, flyover view didn't have London, or Dublin, or anything smaller or in-between. Useless. The world is not the US, and even there you should be from Chicago or Cupertino.
@hill60 -" NSW Motor Registry" finding anything, without a street address, is pretty awesome. There is obviously more than one Registry in Sydney, or New South Wales. You do realise you can click on the pins and zoom in? Someone should try the same search in iOS 6
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Originally Posted by ruckerz
While 3D Flyovers are impressive, I have to remark a feature of StreetView that I would miss: the ability to literally walk into some street shops. For example, see http://goo.gl/maps/2YJCh. Click on the double '>>' on the floor and you get to walk in and see what the shop looks like.
I had never seen this before. My own cynicism tells me it's purely a marketing gimmick. Yes, it's cool, but how useful is it really? Clearly this business allowed the inside of their store to be photographed and displayed via maps... I just wonder if they paid for the privilege?
I like street view when I'm sitting home at my computer, but I rarely use it on my phone. What I do use when mobile are transit features and walking directions. I try to drive as little as possible. I was disappointed that bike directions were not available on the ios google map, but I could usually figure something out.
I've used a lot of regional transit apps, but once google had the transit thing integrated, I pretty much abandoned them. Earlier this year I was in NY, and got around faster and easier than ever before thanks to the google map on my iPhone.
About a year ago, I was in Moline, IL, and although I typically drive there, one day I decided to try out the public transit. At the time I was still using a Palm Pre (I won't get started on that right now), and while I was out that day, I got a message that my maps app had an upgrade available. So I downloaded it, and guess what... the upgrade was a Bing map. Which didn't have transit directions! I tried to get go to google maps on the browser, but it wouldn't let me... It kept taking me to the Bing map... this was after HP had taken over, but before they shut it down. So, that was the last straw for me. As soon as I got home, I got an iPhone. Two things about this:
Don't take features away.
Don't make me use your thing if I like somebody elses thing better than yours. Make your thing better than theirs, then I'll use it.
See here: http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/153167/apple-improving-3d-flyover-visuals-in-ios-6-maps#post_2205937