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As the world whines about Apple ditching Google Maps for its own slightly first draft mapping effort in the latest iOS update, Google’s rubbing salt into Apple users’ wounds and eyes by updating its awesome Android map app to make it EVEN BETTER.
The latest Android Maps updates includes ability to sync your location searches between desktop and mobile, so all the post codes and pubs you’ve looked up on your PC or Mac will now be accessible through the Android app’s search dropdown, plus a full list of all your searches are now stored inside the Searches tab within the My Places section.
Your direction searches from A to B are also stored and synced for mobile access, although that’s about the sum total of the latest update to Android Maps. It’s still a feature well worth showing to any iPhone user today if you want to see them struggle to not cry. [Google]
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Just to pre-empt a certain Giz poster…
http://www.trolleydodger.com/images/nelson_haha.jpg
Gee, I wonder who are you talking about. I second you and Nelson on this one.
http://i48.tinypic.com/w6ytlu.jpg
And very lovely it is too.
Is the gonna assist someone who wants to track yer movements?
May hace negative points as well as positive..
Sorry Taf, does iMaps not track your movements? Are you implying that Apple does not make any use of location data provided by it’s app to improve it’s services? Genuinely don’t know the point you are making. I know that iMaps now has turn by turn, but that’s easy since it only has to say “follow the yellow brick road”
If devices are in sync phone and pc, could all the maps history be accessible from either?
Just did a test, so long as you have web history enabled, you phone map searches do show up on your pc.
I like to go get fish and chips of a chilly eve, the nearest Chippery to me is poor, piss poor, so i drive to the Harry Ramsdens about 8 miles away as they’re lush and just close enough to not be mush by the time i get home. Last time i did so, the Kraken was particularly hungry, so i loged into iCloud and accessed the find my iPhone section so Mrs Spatchmo could track my movements. On Apple you have live tracking, if you know how.
Is it wise to show the Kraken how to track your movements? That sort of tracking is also available ton Android, though not supplied by Google.
It’s fine, being a Marine creature, her memory retention is poor and the tentacles tend to rip the keys off the keyboard before she has a chance to press any buttons.
what the hell was the point of that story?
Oh it’s there, it may be Hidden in a Nolanesque hue of confuzzlement, but it’s there.
I wish I had Apple’s awesome Turn by Turn to navigate to the point of your story
Thank you, I wondered why this new feature wasn’t working, I had web history disabled on my domain. Now I don’t have to star places for them to appear on my phone (not that that was a chore) very shiny
Indeed I was the same, which given my degree of Google integration was a surprise to me. Maybe they swapped a default when they changed to user agreement recently.
Or in your case, Mac.
PC actually…
Your main computer is not a mac? or are you just at work?
The wifey only uses PC’s. That’s kool. I will have to buy a mac book pro at some point…
Your seriously on crack (Applecrack). Ive never seen anyone more fanboyish than you. Literally Google could make a phone which solved cancer and aids yet you would find issues with it
In the Apple indoctrination program is it true you have to praise the prophet Steve Jobs for saving us from evil
Nothing wrong with AppleCrack™ – It’s soooo good.
Taf on crack? never, you lot keep bashing all you like, Taf knows exactly whats what..
Apple at the top, user experience, hardware, software, build, design, everything… the lot! That’s why all the others try copy, Android is so great all the other companies try and cover it up wi some bollocks interface like touch wiz or touch flo or whatever… Tut tut.
Matey your are obviously..how do I put this in a nice way… oh I can’t… A complete dick..
Who are yer?, do I give a f##k? what you think don’t matter to me, so f##k you too b!tch..
Now now, Taf. *slaps wrist*
C’mon on Kat, if he gonna call me a dick, he’s deserved it… . But I will try and reframe from using too much bad lingo, the word tosser will be used next time.
True, true, he shouldn’t have called you a dick. But you’re the starred commenter — lead by example!
With great shininess comes great responsibility..
“With great shininess comes great responsibility”
I am making it my task to fit that sentence into an everyday real world conversations over the coming weeks
And yes, that is a Firefly and Spider-Man reference all rolled into one..
It’s true, you are seriously on Applecrack. Might as well ditch any type of phone, or internet for that matter.
We’re gonna have to keep a record of this statement, for when Apple eventually rolls this feature out.
Is the icloud assist someone who wants to track yer movements?
May hace negative points as well as more negative..
This maybe be true, I just don’t like the idea of tracking, if it’s the mobile phone or bleeding big brother, couldn’t care less which one…
The article relates to google maps, so I comment on google maps, but same goes for any other map.. Apple included.
You are an AppleCrackTaf, but i love you for it! I’m firmly in the Apple camp with iPhone4, iPad3 & MBP 2007 but you truly are a disciple of Steve!
Better than bleeding Droid Rage..
No. Just no. You do not owe companies your unswerving loyalty, they are there to sell their gear to you. Buy what works for you and what you actually need.
I do buy what works for me, don’t expect any different of anyone else, as for buying only what I need, I disagree, the wife has way way way more shoes and handbags than she needs, buying a few gadgets more than you need is nice.. .
Just looking for that next hit of Applecrack aren’t you!? I hope you dont become hard up or else we might see you standing on street corners.
I hope your not planning on using iMaps to get to your next iCult meeting, youll probably have to leave 1 week prior to get there on time.
So the question is will Apple actually acknowledge theyv’e created a piece of garbage in iMaps or just release a condescending and insulting statement like the “your holding it wrong” statement.
No need for working on the streets, just send out the Droid hoes instead…
Except you now need a man bag for holding them all in
Not at all, I don’t carry everything at once..
Bit worried that he has all those food searches listed and just to the left of it it says “RAT” has he been shopping for dodgy meat again?
Mmm, Southern Fried Rat.
I was wondering if that was an official Android image. You just know if it was apple it would be “sushi in shoreditch” instead of “burger and chips”
It’s supposed to say RATED, not sure why it doesn’t
Yeah yeah, and all that stuff over your power adaptor is “candle wax”
just checking updates per model on iPhone, as my daughter has my old iPhone and is bound to ask me what is new and noticed this, so if you have an Iphone 4 or 3GS you cannot use Apples turn by turn navigation.
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The 3GS misses out on the largest number of features: it can’t use the 3D Flyover or turn-by-turn navigation features of the new Maps app (restricted to the iPhone 4S and newer).
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seems a bit odd restricting this when googles version works well on all devices, or is this apple try to force people to upgrade, (not that they would ever do that)
What? A phone update which limits the usability of earlier phones? But Gizmodo spent about a week berating Windows Phone 8 for doing just this when it was announced… I’m sure the many articles chastising Apple are being written as we speak…or not.
but its limiting usability on a feature that the phone can cope with, I can understand that something that requires better hardware.
and that’s fine, but I really cant see why the maps are not available to older models (which after reading reviews of Apples maps is a bonus for 3GS and 4 owners).
and I am sure Apple wants rid of Google maps and make people reliant on theirs.
so it just seems odd as keeping all the phones running their maps would surely be more profitable for them in the long term?
or is it more profitable getting people to upgrade
Doesn’t google earth restrict the 3D function to the 4S too? I can see why top hardware would be required for 3D manipulation, though I agree that turn by turn restrictions are a little more puzzling.
not sure about google earth, and agree about 3D functions, but like you say turn by turn not there is puzzling? and most people would only want turn by turn as opposed to fancy flyovers and 3d stuff
OMG why is Google coping Apple again. Now that Apple have invented turn by turn nagigation, Google just comes along and copies it.
Not cool Google.
didnt Google always have turn by turn, just not on iOS?
Not always! – Eons ago, Google did not have turn by turn.
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(Futurama reference
I didn’t see a smiley so am really really hoping this is sarcasm
I thought I’d added a smiley, and I can’t edit.
Please assume a smiley.
Apple is getting ready to sue Google, TomTom and the others who have dared copying their newly invented turn by turn.
definitely sarcasm, or forgotten medication.
I’m sorry I can’t answer your specific question, but feel free to ask any other
OMG
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19659736
according to BBC Some towns appear to be missing, such as Stratford-upon-Avon and Solihull.
and looking at the comparison pictures on the BBC site, I didn’t quite realise how much data is missing or how bad it is compared to Google maps
Have you read this yet:
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/what-all-the-iphone-5-reviewers-missed-apple-maps-just-plain-sucks/
Not only is it missing swathes of locations, the ones that are there it can’t spell!
I did read that, but I found the photos on the BBC site gave slightly better comparisons which helped visualise how big the difference was
Just another Apple innovation I guess, nice to see them putting customers ahead of their own internal politics
Lol
you are right tactically I also think Apple have jumped the gun, they should have waited until a competitor had a product similar to Google’s and then jumped ship.