Google May Make iOS Map App After All, But Not to Help Apple

In this decade’s great smartphone feud, Apple’s botching of its first self-built maps app would seem to count as a victory for Google. Apple sacrifices customer satisfaction in search of incremental gain against Google; customers gnash their teeth; Google grabs disillusioned customers. By Marcus Wohlsen, http://www.wired.com

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Posted: Sep 27 2012
Tags: Google Maps, iOS, mobile
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Google street view – 8 bit

Thanks to the Google for their April fools goodness

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Posted: Apr 02 2012
Tags: cool, Google, Google Maps, mobile, Nomad, smartphone, technology
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Google street view – 8 bit

Thanks to the Google for their April fools goodness

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Posted: Apr 02 2012
Tags: apps, cool, Google, Google Maps, Google Street View, LOL, smartphone, trends
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Google Fail – Irony wins

Our Google map presence is deleted by Google every couple of months. It’s a common problem with forums ...

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Posted: Oct 24 2011
Tags: browsing, Google, Google Maps, mobile, Nomad
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Turn All Your Location Check-Ins Into A Travel Map With Mentaway

Location-based start-up Mentaway did not get funded by YCombinator but it did get our attention (as mentioning whiskey shots in a pitch email is wont to do) . One upping the Facebook app “Where I’ve Been .” Mentaway automatically compiles checkins from Foursquare, Twitter, Flickr and Posterous and turns them into pins on a personalized travel map.

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Posted: Nov 08 2010
Tags: geolocation, geosocial networking, Google Maps, social media
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Mapping indoors

Have you seen the FastMall app? It’s raison d’etre is to map the insides of shopping malls in the same way that geolocation apps and Google Maps allow you to find your way around outside. With FastMall and other indoor…

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Posted: Oct 13 2010
Tags: app development, apps, geolocation, global, Google, Google Maps, Google Street View, GPS, mobile development, news, retail, smartphone, trends
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