Apple Looking to ‘Spice Up’ Built-in iPhone Maps App?
Nov 30, 2009 android, google, iphone, microsoft, phones
It’s not often you observation microsoft_pick_up_an_iphone_3g_or_iphone_3g_s_with_a_35_discount_from_at_amp_t.html’ title=’Courtesy of Microsoft: Pick up an iPhone 3G or iPhone 3G S with a 35% discount from AT&T’>Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) hunt about for a specific task. In fact, judgment by the occupation itemization found by the good folks at MacRumors, unity can tell exactly what Apple has in the grounder… They want to take the built-in Maps App to the ‘next level’. Groovy.
A snip from the occupation posting:
We want to yield Maps to the next level, rethink how users manipulation Maps and change the means people discovery things. We wish to do this in a seamless, highly interactive and enjoyable way. We’ve only just started.
This is all very, VERY interesting is it not? With Google’s recent turn-by-turn GPS developments (available on all Android 1.6+ devices), and the proliferation of Android on the mobile view… Could it be that Apple wants to do something to differentiate themselves from the boys and girls on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Campus? Surely they do… and they no doubt see themselves falling posterior.
With Google Maps becoming more and more tightly integrated into Android, and with many awesome new features built-in… Apple must be feeling the hurt, hence the motivation to find new software engineers. Perhaps Apple tin build-in awesome new features that give me directions to awesome deals like ‘find me a new MacBook Pro for under $yard′… or, ‘hook shot me up with an iPhone on a carrier other than AT&ere;T (NYSE: T)’.
Just buggin’ Apple, just buggin’.
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