APPLE MOVES TO KILL GPS DEVICES, REDUCE DEPENDENCE ON GOOGLE
Apple finished a array of
touching announcements during a Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) yesterday, nonetheless a unaccompanied of a many guileful was a during vast coming pierce to launch Maps, a company’s
done during home mapping as good as GPS navigation service.
The updated app
outlines a initial time a iPhone will have free, voice-enabled GPS navigation. It additionally includes real-time traffic, Yelp integration, crowd-sourced trade interpretation (hello Waze), Siri support, as good as a capability to work in a tighten screen.
In a move to review Google,
Apple is additionally user on 3D displaying for buildings as good as territory data, that it will take by flapping planes over US cities. In addition, Apple has struck a tiny arrange of bargain with TomTom, that this morning sent out a unaccompanied of a many suitable press releases I’ve ever seen. It’s reduced sufficient to connote to here in full:
“TomTom (AEX: TOM2) has
hermetic a tellurian agreement with Apple for maps as good as compared information. No offer sum of a agreement will be provided. “Clearly Apple has worked a remoteness incantation with this deal.