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Could there have been a (pro android) business case for not releasing this app? Edit: accidentally wrote 'pr android.'
I don't think Google cares what platform you're accessing their services from. As long as they get your data, they're happy.
Could there have been a (pro android) business case for not releasing this app? Edit: accidentally wrote 'pr android.'
but clearly they decided in the end there was a bigger business case for doing it.
I don't entirely understand how Google plans to make money, and I'm not always sure they understand themselves -- but they're probably right that if they keep being the best at what they do and getting as many people as possible (on any platform) to use it, then they can keep harvesting data from all those users, and find ways to monetize that data (rather than charging for apps).
This simply shows how bad apple's decision was to switch to their own solution before it was ready.
As many commenters have said, it wasn't necessarily Apple's choice to make the change, and they were bound to their own release schedule.
Actually I think Apple won here. Google was refusing to release a turn by turn direction update to their apps. By developing an Apple Map App with turn by turn, they kind of forced GooG to provide it on iOS platform. Also, it is very difficult for google to ignore ios users.
This simply shows how bad apple's decision was to switch to their own solution before it was ready.
Actually I think Apple won here. Google was refusing to release a turn by turn direction update to their apps. By developing an Apple Map App with turn by turn, they kind of forced GooG to provide it on iOS platform. Also, it is very difficult for google to ignore ios users.
I have a really, really hard time seeing Apple's map fiasco as a win for Apple.